"[3] James Christopher Monger of AllMusic commented on the score, saying: "The music is appropriately dark and stormy, with long, drawn-out melodies that echo the foggy moors and wet dirt roads of the English countryside.

Marianelli and Liebeck dutifully capture the Gothic undertones of Bronte's influential novel while maintaining a sense of the bittersweet sentimentality that drives the mismatched lovers to such lengths, resulting in the perfect soundtrack for the cold, gray rains of March.

"[4] Daniel Schweiger of AssignmentX wrote: "Dario Marianelli never fails to astound with his melodic and emotional sumptuousness, with each score like Jane Eyre almost impossibly besting the other.

The Bronte sisters couldn't have found a better man to musically speak for their heroines in the form of an Italian who can so beautifully play England's agelessly repressed class system and the mental wreckage it reaps.

[6] For the track, "The End of Childhood", he said that "the harp, strings and piano are tinted with hints of woodwind and vocal in the upper register, like harbingers of complex adulthood".