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|title=The French Dancer's Bastard

|sort=French Dancer's Bastard

|date=October 2006

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Adèle Varens is the rather shadowy child in Charlotte Bronte's ''Jane Eyre''. She came to Thornfield Hall when she was only eight to live with Edward Rochester, who might, or might not have been her father. Her feckless mother was a celebrated French actress who deserted her daughter when she ran off to Italy with her lover. Adèle longs for the glitzy streets of Paris and her loneliness is only assuaged by the arrival of her governess, the eponymous Jane Eyre. She's an inquisitive child and her explorations in Thornfield Hall bring to light certain, er, irregularities that will put everyone's lives and reputations in danger.