Jane Eyre (2011 film) Jane Eyre (2011 film) Jane Eyre is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. The screenplay is written by Moira Buffini based on Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, a classic of the Gothic, bildungsroman, and romance genres. The film was released on 11 March 2011 in the United States and 9 September in Great Britain and Ireland. The film's costume design, lead by Michael O'Connor, was nominated for an Academy Award. The film begins with Jane Eyre fleeing Thornfield Hall in the middle of the night and
Charlotte Jane Charlotte Jane Charlotte Jane was one of the First Four Ships in 1850 to carry emigrants from England to the new colony of Canterbury in New Zealand. The ship is remembered in the name of a road, Charlotte Jane Quay, in the port town of Lyttelton. "Randolph", "Cressy", and "Charlotte Jane" together carried an estimated 790 passengers. In addition, about another 60 worked their passage on the ships or deserted and disembarked. The first of the vessels to arrive was "Charlotte Jane" in Lyttelton on 16 December 1850 in the morning. "Randolph" followed that afternoon. "Sir George Seymour" arrived on