Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate. Although ...

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ’JANE EYRE’: HOW CHARLOTTE BRONTE WROTE HER MASTERPIECE By John Pfordresher W.W. Norton, $26.95, 254 pages If I had read this admirable study by John Pfordresher, a professor of ...

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If you've read Jane Eyre before, you are no doubt familiar with the "madwoman in the attic." And if not... allow me to quickly bring you up to speed: in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, the ...

Two hundred years since the birth of Charlotte Bronte, her most famous work, “Jane Eyre” still enthralls us. Its most famous line serves as the title of a new book, “Reader, I Married Him,” edited by ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Director of the Dothan Houston County Library System, Chris Warren joined News4 to recommend another book. This month’s Chapter Chat pick is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Jane ...

An 'exquisite' period romance adaptation is available for free on BBC iPlayer and fans say it's the best version of this ...