@kristiedegaris hi! I studied WH ~30 years ago - it left an impression

The cruelty leapt out at me too. And even teen me thought it an unhealthy kind of love. The race issue too - on the one hand a sympathetic treatment, but draped in literary tropes & cliche…

But I revelled in its surreality & fire after gritting my teeth through the moralising of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and (less so) Charlotte’s Jane Eyre. I wonder what the sisters thought of each others books?