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"A fresh and modern view of Charlotte Bronte--as a woman searching for love and as a writer who helped change society's perceptions about her sex. Her moving, eloquent portrait will interest not only Bronte devotees but all contemporary women."--Kirkus Reviews ... Read more

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A bio that reads like a novel
What a wonderful biography--it was as much of a page-turner as novel, because the Brontes were such an unusual, strange set of people. I learned a lot about the Brontes that I hadn't known, and the book illuminated C.B.'s novels for me. C.B. herself became much clearer to me as a person and I felt almost overwhelmed with sympathy for her. I'm awed by the immense courage she showed in everything she did--in leaving Haworth to go to Brussels, in going out as a governess, in getting her and her sisters' works out to the public, in visiting London as a famous author, and in just continuing to live and have hope after the crushing blows of her siblings' deaths one after another. Emily, too, is fascinating, both shy and wild, like an animal. The sense of tragedy hangs over the whole book because they all, except for the father, died so young. Charlotte outlived her mother and all her siblings, but she was only 39 when she died. I heartily recommend this biography.

Wonderful book!
This is probably one of the best biographies of Charlotte Bronte.A heartbreaking story. ... Read more

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Jane Eyre is one of the most well-loved and widely read works in the canon, popular at both the high school and university levels. The casebook provides a series of essays that are lucidly and passionately written, and carefully researched and argued while still being accessible to the general reading public. The anthology is structured in three sections. The first provides three overall interpretations of the novel that are excellent examples of the most common approach to Jane Eyre: a reading that explores the psychological development of the novel's eponymous heroine. The second section will introduce more novel approaches: a feminist reading of the novel, a depiction of the psyche in Jane Eyre, a depiction of Jane in light of mid-Victorian discussions of Evangelicism, an analysis of Jane in relation to contemporary debates about the governess, and an examination of the novel in relation to colonialist discourse. The last section of the anthology includes essays that provide accounts of the familial context out of which Jane Eyre arose, its critical reception, and its literary afterlife. ... Read more

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An emotional presentation of a timeless romantic novel
Co-produced by BBC and WGBH Boston, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a 2-DVD movie adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel about strong woman and the buried secrets she must confront. After surviving a miserable childhood, Jane Eyre accepts a governess position at Thornfield hall, where she tutors a sprightly French girl, and gradually falls in love with the master of the house. When the master's dark past is revealed, undoing her happiness, she escapes to the shelter of a kind clergyman, but her next ordeal will be discovering the hidden secret of her own past. An emotional presentation of a timeless romantic novel, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre expresses passion, courage, hope, and survival. 228 minutes, color. ... Read more

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Definately a Great Illustrated Classic
I love the Great Illustrated Classics and I love Jane Eyre. I've been waiting for this book to come out for years. The pictures in here are very well drawn. Jane is as I pictured her to be. She's plain and proper. She might look a little to old to be 18, though. Rochester looks like a dark, brooding Master. He might be a bit too handsome, however. Mrs. Reed looks like a creepy old witch. Adele has really short hair which I think should be long and curly. The cover art does not match the pictures inside. Jane does not have curly hair. One of the pictures is in the wrong place, and a few are inaccurate. For example, when Rochester is at Ferndean, he should have a hand missing, but they show him with both hands. Overall, the pictures are very well done. The rewritten story is close enough to the book. It's a little abrupt at times, but still a good read for a child. ... Read more

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Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts

Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features:

• A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works
• A brief biography of the author
• An accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author
• Aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index
• A readable style presented in a manageable length

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By the middle of the nineteenth century much clearly gendered, anti-Catholic literature was produced for the Protestant middle classes. Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses explores how this writing generated a series of popular anti-Catholic image and looks towards the cultural, social and historical foundation fo these representations. By examining the mofifs of the nun, the Jesuit and the vulnerable Protestant girl alongside the controversial subjects of confession, patriarchy and a discourse of fear, this book places the novels of Charlotte Bronte within the framework of Victorian social ideologies, in particular the climate created by the rise of anti-Catholicism. It thus provides alternative readings of her work. ... Read more

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The Bront sisters won immortality through their novels, butthey and their brother Branwell were also outstanding poets. Thisgenerous selection of their best poems gives readers access to thepersonal feelings and observations woven into their great novels, fromAnne's loneliness as a governess to the thrill Emily felt on the wildmoors. ... Read more

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After a sad and neglected childhood as an orphan, Jane Eyre was hired by Edward Rochester as governess for his ward.Jane was pleased with the quiet country life at Thornfield, with the beautiful old manor house and gardens, with the book-filled library, and with her own comfortable room.

But there were stories of a strange tenant, a woman who laughed like a maniac, and who stayed in rooms on the third floor.The moody Rochester, however, rebuffed her attempts to find out about the woman, and ordered her to keep quiet about strange noises she heard at night.

One night in the garden, Edward Rochester embraced Jane and proposed marriage.But the quiet ceremony in the village church was shockingly halted by a stranger who claimed that Rochester was already married - to the raving maniac Jane had heard crying in the house.

Grief-stricken, Jane left Thornfield, feeling that her life was over before it had really begun.But life had many surprises in store for our heroine, and among them there just might be a happily-ever-after. ... Read more

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This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Brontë as having existed in a historical vacuum. Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes belonging to the Brontës, Sally Shuttleworth explores Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality and insanity, and traces the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's texts operate in relation to this complex framework. Shuttleworth offers a reading of Brontë's fiction informed by a new understanding of the psychological debates of her time. ... Read more

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