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Jane Eyre (/ ɛər / AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. [2]
Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine and the titular protagonist in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.The story follows Jane's infancy and childhood as an orphan, her employment first as a teacher and then as a governess, and her romantic involvement with her employer, the mysterious and moody Edward Rochester.
Victor Jory in Jane Eyre by Matinee Theater (3 December 1944) [46] Orson Welles in Jane Eyre by The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (28 June 1946) [47] Robert Montgomery in Jane Eyre by The Lux Radio Theatre (14 June 1948) [48] Ciarán Hinds in Jane Eyre on BBC Radio 7 (24-27 August 2009) [49] Tom Burke in Jane Eyre on BBC Radio 4's 15 Minute ...
The Turn of the Screw borrows both from Jane Eyre's themes of class and gender, [1] and from its mid-nineteenth-century setting. [2] The novella alludes to Jane Eyre in tandem with an explicit reference to Ann Radcliffe 's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), wherein the governess wonders if there might be a secret relative hidden in ...
York Notes are a series of English literature study guides sold in the United Kingdom and in approximately 100 countries worldwide. They are sold as revision material for GCSE and A-level exams particularly as literary guides to introduce students to sophisticated analysis and perspectives of the specific title. The guides for A-level are sold ...
It re-enacts the history of modern Japanese literature by absorbing and transforming the Western classic into the Japanese literary context. Afghan novelist Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, The Kite Runner, included Wuthering Heights when Amir asks Soraya what book she is reading. Soraya replies, "It is a sad story."
The Professor, A Tale. was the first novel by English author Charlotte Brontë.It was written in 1846 before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses.It was eventually published, posthumously, in 1857, with the approval of Charlotte Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who took on the task of reviewing and editing the text.
The genesis of Agnes Grey was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. [4]It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, [5] although Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre were all published within the same year: 1847. [6]