Book description
With an essay by Elaine Showalter.
'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I
am, the more I will respect myself'
Passionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of
naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent
woman who refuses to accept her appointed place in society - and
instead finds love on her own terms - has become famous as one of the
greatest romances ever written, but it is also a brooding Gothic
mystery, a profound depiction of character and a transformative work
of the imagination.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
Charlotte Bront (1816-55) was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, one of
an extraordinary group of siblings who spent their time immersed in
reading and writing and between them went on to change the nature of
English fiction. Publishing under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Charlotte
was a great friend of Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote her biography, as
well as William Makepeace Thackeray and George Henry Lewes.
Bront 's novels Shirley and Villette are also
published in the Penguin English Library.
