Jane Eyre (1934 film) not uninteresting as a curio." Jane Eyre (1934 film) Jane Eyre is a 1934 American romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive. It is based on the 1847 novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, and is the first adaptation to use sound. A Victorian orphan secures a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. She falls in love with her employer. Production began 17 May 1934 at General Service Studios. Critic Leonard Maltin gave the film 2 stars (out of four), describing it as a "[t]hin version of the oft-filmed Bronte novel, produced by Monogram,
Shire of Lowood Shire of Lowood The Shire of Lowood is a former local government area in the south-east of Queensland, Australia. It existed between 1912 and 1916. From around 1890, increasing settlement in and around the town of Lowood resulted in ongoing agitation to establish a new shire. An alternative proposal was to relocate the office of the Shire of Walloon away from Marburg and into Lowood on the grounds that the majority of the population of the Shire of Walloon used Lowood as their market town and that Lowood had the advantage of being on the railway line (which Marburg was