Jane Eyre (1996 film) Jane Eyre (1996 film) Jane Eyre is a 1996 American, British, French and Italian romantic epic and dramatic feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre". This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book (the running away, the trials and tribulations, new found relations, and new job) to condense it into a 2-hour movie. Jane Eyre (portrayed as the orphan child by Anna Paquin and as an adult by Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the plain, impoverished young woman
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