Vanessa is an atheist chaplain. She's also the author of a memoir, called "Praying with Jane Eyre," all about how she has learned to read literature like sacred texts.

Jane Eyre was an instant bestseller when it was published. It routinely outranks Wuthering Heights on best-books lists, and was the first to be adapted for the screen, as a silent film in 1910 ...

She's also the author of a memoir, called "Praying with Jane Eyre," all about how she has learned to read literature like sacred texts. Vanessa's family is Jewish - all four of her grandparents ...

Yet, unlike most school books, “Jane Eyre” is not a long drone-on-in-hard-to-read-Old-English text, but an interesting and colorful novel (even the unabridged version).

As Whipple hinted, it may be that rather than warning students off Jane Eyre and these other texts, such a label might single the novel out (unfairly) to student readers as being far more ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with author and atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan about her practice of treating novels like Jane Eyre as sacred text.

An example on display at the parsonage of the Brontes' juvenilia, written in a microscopic hand on pages bound like tiny books. At Top Withens, possibly the inspiration for "Wuthering Heights ...

Sheila Kohler's novel, "Becoming Jane Eyre," shows how Charlotte Brontë found a freedom in fiction that she didn't have in her personal life.

Jane Eyre is not just a classic, it’s classic young adult! Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was the first book my grandmother read out loud to me when I went to live with her at the age of 12. I ...

Jane Eyre doesn’t. Two new books show us why. by Constance Grady. May 19, 2016, 3:30 PM UTC. Jane Steele and Eligible. G.P. Putnam’s Sons and Random House.

Lyndsay Faye, a Longview, Washington native, will read from her satirical historical romance March 31 at Powell's in Beaverton.