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.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel...
The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity.
Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847.
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.
HowI looked forward tocatch the first view of thewell-known woods!Withwhat feelings I welcomed single treesIknew, and familiar glimpses of meadow and hill between them! At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing ...
Charlotte Brontë's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847.
For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel itself in an authoritative text."—Fred Kaplan, Queens College and ...
Edited by Mark Lilly with an Introduction by Tony Tanner . New York : Penguin Books , 1979 . Brontë , Emily . ... Amereon House , n.d. Wiggin , Kate Douglas . The Birds ' Christmas Carol , The Story of Patsy , Timothy's Quest ...
Georget gave a more sympathetic warning of the consequences of women's social situation; prohibited from outward ... Jane's primary crime, in her aunt's eyes, is her sudden flaring into violence which suggests a history of secrecy and ...