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2. Jane Eyre - Wikipedia

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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]

3. Villette (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Jane Eyre works in sharp black and white, while Villette works in psychological and even factual grey areas. Where Jane’s specialness is stipulated, despite her poverty and plain looks, the heroine of Villette, Lucy Snowe, is an unassuming figure who spends the majority of the novel as a quiet observer.

4. Bertha Mason - Wikipedia

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   Bertha Mason in the foreground, an illustration by F. H. Townsend for the second edition of Jane Eyre, published in 1847 Bertha Mason smashed on the pavement after throwing herself off the roof when Thornfield Hall is on fire. Bertha Antoinetta [1] Rochester (née Mason) is a character in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre.

5. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell - Wikipedia

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   Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Title page of the first edition, 1846 Authors Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne Brontë Language English Publication place United Kingdom Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a book of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work in print. To evade ...

6. Jane Eyre (character) - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Anne Brontë - Wikipedia

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   Jane Eyre was accepted immediately by Smith, Elder & Co. It was the first published of the sisters' novels, and an immediate and resounding success. Meanwhile, Anne and Emily's novels "lingered in the press". Anne and Emily were obliged to pay fifty pounds to help meet their publishing costs. Their publisher was galvanised by the success of ...

8. Shirley (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë.It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell).

9. Agnes Grey - Wikipedia

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   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]