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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"
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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateFeb 15, 2019
    ISBN9780028666358
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"

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      A Study Guide (New Edition) for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" - Gale

      18

      Jane Eyre

      Charlotte Brontë

      1847

      Introduction

      On August 24, 1847, a train departed from Haworth, a hamlet in Yorkshire, England. The train's cargo included the manuscript of a three-volume novel by Currer Bell. Its destination was the London publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co. George Smith, the firm's editor, immediately recognized the potential of the novel and published it less than two months later, on October 16. Currer Bell was the gender-neutral (though vaguely masculine) pen name of Charlotte Brontë, and the novel was Jane Eyre.

      Jane Eyre was immensely popular and continues to be regarded as a classic of English literature. It remains a staple of high school and college curriculums, and in 2013 the London Guardian ranked the novel twelfth among the one hundred best novels ever written. Jane Eyre has remained popular for many reasons, not the least of which is its focus on a strong-willed orphan who endures several years at a charity school, becomes the governess to a ward of the mysterious and magnetic Edward Rochester, and falls in love with him. The novel succeeds as a kind of conversation between the first-person protagonist and the reader as Jane pursues her quest for identity, meaning, and a secure place in the world. The novel's effective use of gothic conventions adds to its appeal for many readers.

      Author Biography

      Brontë was born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England, one of six children of the Reverend Patrick Brontë, an Anglican minister, and his wife, Maria. Soon after the family moved to the parsonage at Haworth in 1820, Maria and the two eldest children died, leaving behind Brontë and her sisters Emily (a poet and the author of Wuthering Heights) and Anne (the author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) and brother Branwell. In 1824, the three girls endured the harsh discipline of the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, but they returned home in 1825. In 1826, they began playing with the wooden soldiers their father brought home in a box for Branwell's use as toys, firing their imagination and spurring them to write fantasies about imaginary worlds they named Gondal and Angria. In 1831, Brontë was enrolled at Miss Wooler's school at Roe Head, near Huddersfield, where she remained for a year, returning home in 1832 to teach her sisters. She returned to Roe Head as a teacher in 1835. She resigned the position in 1838, largely because of ill health and depression.

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