Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27068359-20151022222607/@comment-27056702-20151022223755

Buttermuffins wrote: Daughters of Mnemosyne wrote: I'm fairly sure Jane Eyre is a Gothic romance...? I don't think so... I read Jane Eyre in 8th grade for a report and I thought it was purely romance. But my memory is foggy on that book.
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I think that locking your insane wife in chains down in the basement is pretty dark. And the manors had that Gothic design to them, as well as Jane believing she is seeing ghosts and hearing demons and such. (These are just the wife though.)