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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 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.
Thursday had marooned Jack Schitt in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven at the end of The Eyre Affair, and his employer, The Goliath Corporation, a Big Brother-like agency which is the de facto ruler of England, wants him back. They hire a ChronoGuard agent named Lavoisier to eradicate Thursday's husband Landen from the time line, as a hostage to ...
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.
Edward Rochester is the oft-absent master of Thornfield Hall, where Jane Eyre is employed as a governess to his young ward, Adèle Varens.Jane first meets Rochester while on a walk, when his horse slips and he injures his foot.
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 end of America : a letter of warning to a young patriot / Naomi Wolf. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-933392-79-0 1. Civil rights—United States. 2. Abuse of administrative power—United States. 3. National security—United States. 4. United States—Politics and government—2001– I. Title. JC599.U5W63 2007 323. ...
Jane Eyre is a 2006 television adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The story, which has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations , is based on the life of the orphaned title character.