Literature Sequels • The novelist
Angela Carter was working on a sequel to
Jane Eyre at the time of her death in 1992. This was to have been the story of Jane's stepdaughter Adèle Varens and her mother Céline. Only a synopsis survives. • 1997:
Mrs. Rochester: A Sequel to Jane Eyre by
Hilary Bailey • 2003:
Jane Eyre: The Graphic Novel. Script Adaptation: Amy Corzine; Artwork: John M. Burns; Lettering: Terry Wiley; Classical Comics Ltd.
Re-workings • 1958:
Nine Coaches Waiting by
Mary Stewart makes implicit and explicit reference to
Jane Eyre. The novel is a gothic romance set in a remote French château in the 1950s. The heroine, Linda, is, like Jane, an orphan who takes on the role of governess, this time to a young boy. She compares her situation to that of Jane Eyre on several occasions. • 2002:
Jenna Starborn by
Sharon Shinn, a science-fiction novel based upon
Jane Eyre • 2010:
Jane Slayre by
Sherri Browning Erwin. In the same vein as
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, this has Jane Eyre battling vampires while also working through the events of the original story. • 2010
Sloane Hall by Libby Sternberg, a retelling set in 1929 Hollywood as films shifted from silent to sound. • 2010:
Jane by April Lindner. Set in the 20th century with Mr. Rochester as Nico Rathburn, a world-famous rockstar • 2015:
Re Jane: A Novel by Patricia Park pictures Jane as a half-Korean, half-American orphan in Flushing, Queens. • 2016:
Jane Steele by
Lyndsay Faye; inspired by her reading of Jane Eyre, the titular protagonist tells her story, which follows a similar path to the original, but this Jane is a serial killer. • 2016: A
manga adaptation by Crystal S. Chan was published by Manga Classics Inc., with artwork by Sunneko Lee. • 2017:
Jane by
Aline Brosh McKenna and
Ramon K. Perez; a
graphic novel published by
Boom! Studios, it is a contemporary reworking of the novel set in modern-day New York, with Jane being a nanny for a Westchester recluse and St. John being reimagined as her crossdressing fashion designer roommate Hector. • 2018:
Brightly Burning by
Alexa Donne. A
young adult romantic mystery set in space.
Re-tellings • 2006:
The Translator by
Leila Aboulela, a Sudanese British Muslim retelling. • 2007: ''Thornfield Hall: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story'' by
Emma Tennant. • 2010:
I am Jane Eyre by Teana Rowland. This version of
Jane Eyre delves into some of the unexplained aspects of the novel. • 2015:
Jane Eyre: My Private Autobiography by W.J. Harrison. This version of
Jane Eyre works in some novel twists that fit into the original plot, such as Jane's pursuit of Rochester and St. John's homosexuality. • 2021:
The Wife Upstairs by
Rachel Hawkins. • 2023:
Jane & Edward by Melodie Edwards. Retelling of Jane Eyre in modern times.
Prequels • 1966:
Wide Sargasso Sea by
Jean Rhys. The character Bertha Mason serves as the main protagonist for this novel which acts as a prequel to
Jane Eyre. It describes the meeting and marriage of Antoinette Cosway (later renamed Bertha by Mr. Rochester) and Mr. Rochester. In its reshaping of events related to
Jane Eyre, the novel suggests that Bertha's madness is not congenital, but rather the result of terrible childhood experiences and Mr. Rochester's unloving treatment of her.
Wide Sargasso Sea has been
adapted into film twice.
Spin-offs • 2001: The novel
The Eyre Affair by
Jasper Fforde revolves around the plot of
Jane Eyre. It portrays the book as originally largely free of literary contrivance: Jane and Mr. Rochester's first meeting is a simple conversation without the dramatic horse accident, and Jane does not hear his voice calling for her and ends up starting a new life in India. The protagonist's efforts mostly accidentally change it to the real version. • 2009:
Becoming Jane Eyre by
Sheila Kohler. A novel about Charlotte Brontë writing the story. • 2009:
Jane Airhead by Kay Woodward. A novel about a present-day teenage girl obsessed with Jane Eyre.
Re-tellings from another character's point of view • 1966:
Wide Sargasso Sea by
Jean Rhys. Bertha's story beginning with her origins in the Caribbean, where she was forced to marry Rochester, and ending with her entrapment and suicide in Rochester's English home. • 2000: ''Adèle: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story'' by
Emma Tennant • 2006: ''The French Dancer's Bastard: The Story of Adèle From Jane Eyre'' by Emma Tennant. This is a slightly modified version of Tennant's 2000 novel. • 2009:
Adele, Grace, and Celine: The Other Women of Jane Eyre by Claire Moise. This both retells the story from the point of view of three other women and explains their fate after the main events of the story. • 2010:
Rochester: A Novel Inspired by Jane Eyre by J.L. Niemann.
Jane Eyre told from the first-person perspective of Edward Rochester. • 2011: ''Jane Eyre's Rival: The Real Mrs Rochester'' by Clair Holland. Told from the perspective of Bertha Antoinetta Mason, Mr. Rochester's first wife, by Lisa Mason, Antoinetta's modern-day descendant. • 2011: ''Jane Eyre's Husband – The Life of Edward Rochester'' by Tara Bradley. Rochester's entire life. • 2017:
Mr Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker – Edward Fairfax Rochester's life before he meets Jane, then essentially, Jane Eyre from his perspective. • 2022:
Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste. Reimagines Rochester as am immortal villain and Bertha as a victim who becomes immortal. • 2022:
Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell. Tells Adele's story starting from before Rochester takes her to England through the novel and focuses on her time after Jane Eyre at school in London.
Other influences • 1938:
Rebecca by
Daphne du Maurier has parallels with
Jane Eyre. However, the author never confirmed any direct influence of
Jane Eyre on her novel.
Music • 2019:
Madwoman in the Attic, a song by
Blackbriar and featured on their album
Our Mortal Remains, is inspired by the novel. ==References==