By  Charlotte Bront�, 1847, Ebook by Penn State University

"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bront�." --Virginia Woolf

One of the most famous novels of all time, Jane Eyre, An Autobiography was written by  Charlotte Bront� and published in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Company, London. Charlotte Bront� first published Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell, and it was an instant success, earning the praise of many reviewers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, to whom Charlotte Bront� dedicated her second edition.

The story is that of a governess, Jane Eyre. Despite her plainness, she captures the heart of her enigmatic employer, Edward Rochester. Jane discovers that he has a secret that could jeopardize any hope of happiness between them.

 Useful Links:

• Bront� Parsonage Museum Website
• News magazine of the Bront� Parsonage Museum
• Jane Eyre message board
• Literary Encyclopedia
• The Victorian Web
• Defining Romanticism: The Implications of Nature Personified as Female in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
• Complete Summary
• Jane Eyre � complete book in HTML one page for each chapter.
• Bronte Sisters Links: the biggest online link-database regarding the Bronte Sisters, their lives and works
• News and information about the Bront�s using a blog format.
• Bront�ana: Bront� Studies Weblog
• Website of the Bront� Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Yorkshire
• Online editions of Charlotte Bront�'s works
• Works by Charlotte Bront� at Project Gutenberg
• Web news magazine of the Bront� Parsonage Museum
• News and information about the Bront�s using a blog format.
• Charlotte Bront� - Drawing by George Richmond (National Portrait Gallery)
• Bronte Sisters Links: the biggest collection of links regarding the Bronte Sisters
• Bront�ana: Bront� Studies Weblog

Charlotte Bront�, Writer:

• Born: 21 April 1816
• Birthplace: Thornton, Yorkshire, England
• Died: 31 March 1855 (complications from pregnancy)
• Best Known As: Author of Jane Eyre

Charlotte is the author of Jane Eyre and a member of the remarkable Bront� family. The sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne first published their poetry under pseudonyms: Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell was released in 1846, selling only a few copies. Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre was published in 1847, shortly after Emily's Wuthering Heights; the sisters had almost simultaneously written what later became known as two of the great novels of English literature. Jane Eyre was an immediate success and Charlotte went on to publish Shirley (1848) and Villette (1853). She outlived her sisters but still was only 38 when she died in pregnancy.

Charlotte was the only one of the sisters to marry... Her novel The Professor was written before Jane Eyre but not published until 1857... As children the three sisters and their brother Branwell dreamed up and wrote intricate histories of the fantasy kingdoms of Angria and Gondal; Legends of Angria, a collection of Charlotte's childhood writings, was published in 1933.

FOUR GOOD LINKS

• The Bront� Sisters
  A Swedish fan lists Web links to the sisters and (especially) to their books
• Books and Authors: Charlotte Bront�
  Good basic biography of Bront�, hits all the key points
• Charlotte Bront� Overview
  Good resource for students, courtesy of the Victorian Web
• Charlotte Bront�
  Includes texts of her works, plus academic essay links

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