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In diverting the attentions from the plot towards Jane’s reactions to it, the novel follows the bildungsroman genre also used by Charlotte’s sister Anne in her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Charlotte Brontë made a daring choice for her 1847 novel. Jane Eyre possesses neither the great beauty nor entrancing charm that her fictional predecessors used to make their way in the world.
Clare Hartwell, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Elizabeth Williamson, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire (New Haven, ... Patrick Brontë, His Collected Works and Life, ed., J. Horsefall Turner (Bingley: T. Harrison & Sons, 1898), 42.
A reimagining of the life of the Brontèe sisters finds Charlotte penning her future classic against a backdrop of the deaths of family members, a father's illness, a brother's dependency, and her sisters' shared literary visions.
This classic novel challenges conventions of desire, family, class and just how much of our identity we are willing to give up for those we love.
Includes the text, and five critical essays, each written from a differing, contemporary perspective
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
Brimming with a lifelong love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text--from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards.
The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.[1] Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding ...
The story follows Jane Eyre from her childhood as an orphan to her time as governess at Thornfield Hall where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Fairfax Rochester.First published in 1847 in 3 volumes, this edition is derived from ...