'I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to [...]

Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's only historical novel and her most topical one. The introduction to this new edition considers its autobiographical overtones as well as its social context, and includes revised notes and bibliography.[...]

Charlotte Bront"e's letters are our most direct source of information about the Bront"es and the life of the novelist. Vivid and passionate, they describe her inmost feelings as well as the world around her in Haworth, Belgium, and London. They offer insights into her novels and the development of [...]

Charlotte Bronte's most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness and cruelty of Jane's childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a [...]

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bronte'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."
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A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre.
Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Bronte has been known as well for her insular, tragi[...]

"Jane Eyre" is one of the great works of English Literature and is widely-studied at GCSE, "A" and undergraduate level as well as being an enduring favourite with the general reader. This book offers the text, and five critical essays, each written from a differing, contemporary perspective.[...]

This text provides historically and theoretically informed readings of the full range of Charlotte Bronte's texts, including new analyses of her four best known novels and other less familiar work, such as the Ashanti narratives, the poetry and the Belgian essays.[...]

This series provides unabridged versions of pre-20th-century novels, complete with an introduction, glossary, extended writing questions and activities. Their sewn binding and hard laminated covers make them hardwearing for class use.[...]

The classic 1847 novel traces the doomed love affair between an orphaned, independent-minded governess and her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester.[...]

This powerfully moving psychological study was acclaimed by George Eliot as"a still more wonderful book than" Jane Eyre, "" and by Virginia Woolf as"Bronte's finest novel." Its remarkably modern heroine abandons her native England for the freedom and independence -- and insecurity -- of life as a sc[...]

The Bronte sisters are among the most beloved writers of all time, best known for their classic nineteenth-century novels "Jane Eyre" (Charlotte), "Wuthering Heights" (Emily), and "Agnes Grey" (Anne). In this sometimes heartbreaking young adult biography, Catherine Reef explores the turbulent lives [...]