Jane Eyre (1910 film) Jane. When next Jane's haughty aunt and cousins call upon Lord Rochester, they are just in time to be introduced to his bride, who is none other than the despised Jane Eyre." The scenario for the film was adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel "Jane Eyre". Brontë's work was modeled after her own life. The book was considered a classic for many decades before the Thanhouser adaptation. The film adaptation was not the first, the earliest known adaption being a 1909 Italian silent film. The writer of the scenario is unknown, but it may have been Lloyd Lonergan. Lonergan was
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