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The English author Charlotte Bronte wrote the book, Jane Eyre. The main character of the book tells the story in the first person. It takes place at the end of George III's reign, somewhere in the north of England (1760-1820).
There are five main phases:
- Jane's upbringing at Gateshead Hall, where her aunt and cousins abuse her physically and verbally
- her schooling at Lowood School, where she makes friends and role models but experiences persecution and deprivation
- Her time as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets her enigmatic employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester, and falls in love
- her time in the Moor House, where her earnest but icy clergyman cousin, St. John Rivers, proposes to her
- and finally, her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester. It offers viewpoints on a variety of significant societal topics and concepts throughout these parts, many of which are critical of the existing quo. Charlotte Brontë
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'At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Bronte.'
--Virginia Woolf
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About Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë lived from 1816 to 1855. In 1824 she was sent away to school with her four sisters and they were treated so badly that their father brought them home to Haworth in Yorkshire. The elder two sisters died within a few days and Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne were brought up in the isolated village. They were often lonely and loved to walk on the moors. They were all great readers and soon began to write small pieces of verse and stories.
Once Charlotte’s informal education was over she began to work as a governess and teacher in Yorkshire and Belgium so that she could add to the low family income and help to pay for her brother Branwell’s art education. Charlotte was a rather nervous young woman and didn’t like to be away from home for too long. The sisters began to write more seriously and published poetry in 1846 under male pen names – there was a lot of prejudice against women writers. The book was not a success and the sisters all moved on to write novels. Charlotte’s best-known book, Jane Eyre, appeared in 1847 and was soon seen as a work of genius.
Charlotte’s life was full of tragedy, never more so than when her brother Branwell and sisters Emily and Anne died within a few months in 1848/49. She married her father’s curate in 1854 but died in 1855, before her fortieth birthday.
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