![]() ![]() In a review from 1849, James Lorimer already recognised his irresistible appeal as he wrote: ‘We cannot blame for ultimately falling in love with Rochester, for in doing so she did nothing more than every woman who has read the book has done since’. ![]() Surprisingly nonetheless, this strange character has fascinated generations of heterosexual female readers. ![]() I argue that he is a hero of romance as he is a fantasy, a true creation and most importantly, a space for the author to develop a new form of masculinity.Īt first, Edward Fairfax Rochester, hero of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), appears as a strange hero of romance: he is ugly and sometimes rude, but most importantly, he is a forty-year-old man who tries to trick an eighteen-year-old girl into a bigamous marriage. I presented a paper on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, more precisely on its hero, Edward Rochester. Last June, I took part in the MA conference organised by Queen Mary University of London, where I did an MA in Victorian Literature. ![]()
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