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'Improving' other people's books
On My Life in Books (BBC2) Jeanette Winterson has just said that it wasn't until she read Jane Eyre for herself that she realised her adopted mother - who read it to her when she was a child - had changed the plot.
She had Jane marrying St John Rivers after which they became missionaries. Presumably she considered this a more worthwhile option than having Jane marrying Mr Rochester!
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