January talking meme

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verdande_mi asked: Favourite two characters from a book?

Oh, what a difficult question! When I read a book, then the character’s of that book is usually my favourite characters. But the two characters who popped up first when I thought about it, was Harriet Vane and Jane Eyre.

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[ardyforshort]

I love Harriet Vane so much ♥

[scripsi]

She's wonderful! <3

[nenya_kanadka]

I'm kind of agnostic on Jane Eyre, but I adore Harriet Vane. Especially as played by Harriet Walter. <3

[scripsi]

Yes, Harriet Walter is a great Harriet! :D

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Ohh, that is always a hard one!! Good picks, though!

*HUGS*

[dunderklumpen.livejournal.com]

Jane Eyre was the first "victorian" book I ever read. It was more or less by accident without knowing what it was about.

My music teacher had sorted through her shelf and brought a box of books with her to school. Everybody who wanted could take some. I took Jane Eyre and Dorian Gray. I started Jane Eyre the same day and read it in one night. Such began my love affair with Charlotte Brontë and later on in the same wake also Jane Austen.

I loved JE. I re-read it a couple of times since then and it still has such a fond place in my heart. I'm aware of its faults as much as I know its greatness - and I still love it.

You never know what giving books to people can start. I bet my music teacher back then never anticipated to spark such a love for this genre in one of her pupils.

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*hugs*

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

Come to think about it, it was mine as well. :) But I saw the TV-series with Timothy Dalton and when my father told me it was adapted from a book I rushed to the library because I just couldn't wait until next week to find out what was to happen. :) I re-read it throughout my teens and identified heavily with Jane. And I still enjoy a re-read now and then. :)

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I'll always have a soft spot for Jane Eyre.


Gabrielle

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

I am not familiar with Harriet Vane. Which book and author is that? Jane Eyre I know of, but I have never read the book.

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She is a character in the crime novels by Dorothy L. Sayers. Her main hero is the amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, but he eventually meets, and fall in love with, Harriet, who writes crime novels and most of the books she is in are narrated from her perspective.

I can recommend Sayer's books all round. They are funny and charming and though written in the 20's and 30's, often feels astonshly modern.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I guess she has an enduring appeal, especially to Young women. :)