Jane EyreIntroduction by Diane Johnson • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world’s most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work “of great genius.” Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë’s masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world’s most beloved novels. |
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... girl Jane Eyre went immediately to the heart of the British public, bringing tears to the eyes of even hard-bitten ... girls. But even the publishers at Smith, Elder in London had no idea from the rather unrevealing, businesslike letters ...
... girl Jane Eyre went immediately to the heart of the British public, bringing tears to the eyes of even hard-bitten ... girls. But even the publishers at Smith, Elder in London had no idea from the rather unrevealing, businesslike letters ...
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... girls—and an experience of life unusual for its unworldly isolation. In their playroom, the four children collaborated on curious, romantic fictions—strange, evolving psychodramas about two mythical kingdoms, Angria and Gondal, peopled ...
... girls—and an experience of life unusual for its unworldly isolation. In their playroom, the four children collaborated on curious, romantic fictions—strange, evolving psychodramas about two mythical kingdoms, Angria and Gondal, peopled ...
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... girls, poverty, the lot of the governess, and much else. But above all, Jane Eyre is a great love story, the romantic love of Jane for Rochester. In this sense Brontë is both a Victorian novelist and a late Romantic, combining the ...
... girls, poverty, the lot of the governess, and much else. But above all, Jane Eyre is a great love story, the romantic love of Jane for Rochester. In this sense Brontë is both a Victorian novelist and a late Romantic, combining the ...
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... Bessie, turning to the Abigail. “But it was always in her,” was the reply. “I've told Missis often my opinion about the child, and Missis agreed with me. She's an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her Chapter.
... Bessie, turning to the Abigail. “But it was always in her,” was the reply. “I've told Missis often my opinion about the child, and Missis agreed with me. She's an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her Chapter.
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Charlotte Bronte. underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover.” Bessie answered not; but ere long, addressing me, she said,— “You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she ...
Charlotte Bronte. underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover.” Bessie answered not; but ere long, addressing me, she said,— “You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Twelve | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Sixteen | |
Chapter Eighteen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
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