Jane Eyre: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism

Charlotte Bronte
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
February 1 1988
EAN: 9780393955897
ISBN: 0393955893
Synopsis: Jane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was
published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly
handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Brontë , a young woman from a bleak Yorkshire parsonage.