Jane Eyre — Second Edition, Volume I
Jane’s first-person story joins romance to questions of independence, work, morality, class and the right to define one’s own life
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Jane’s first-person story joins romance to questions of independence, work, morality, class and the right to define one’s own life
Before the Brontë sisters became synonymous with novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they wrote poetry together under the male-sounding names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. This collection preserves that earlier literary identity and reveals how closely poetry was tied to the
Shirley is Charlotte Brontë’s novel about friendship, love, industrial change, and the changing possibilities available to women in a Yorkshire community disrupted by economic conflict. The novel has two central women: Caroline Helstone, quiet and constrained by the social expectations around
Villette follows Lucy Snowe, one of Charlotte Brontë’s most psychologically complex heroines, as she leaves England and becomes a teacher in the fictional Belgian city of Villette. Lucy is outwardly restrained and socially unimportant, but internally she is observant, intelligent, lonely
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