A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions & dark secrets Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" is edited with an introduction & notes by Stevie Davis in " Penguin Classics". Charlotte Bronte tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt enduring loneliness & cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence & spirit
- which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester & live with the consequences or follow her convictions
- even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power & intrigue " Jane Eyre" dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality & freedom. In her introduction Stevie Davis discusses the novel's language & politics its treatment of women's lives & its literary influences. This edition also
Includes:: a chronology further reading an appendix & notes. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) eldest of the Bronte sisters was born in Thornton West Yorkshire. " Jane Eyre" was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell & was followed by " Shirley" (1848) & " Vilette" (1853). In 1854 Charlotte Bronte married her father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on March 31 1855. The Professor was posthumously published in 1857. If you liked " Jane Eyre" you might enjoy Jean Rhys' " Wide Sargasso Sea" also available in " Penguin Classics". " At the end we are steeped through & through with the genius the vehemence the indignation of Charlotte Bronte". (Virginia Woolf). " Charlotte Bronte's heroine towers over those around her morally intellectually & aesthetically...she takes a scalpel to the skin of the everyday". (China Mieville). " The masterwork of a great genius". (William Makepeace Thackeray)."