Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate.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

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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 ...

Lamb’s Players Theatre’s upcoming “Jane Eyre”-themed production is not to be confused with Paul Gordon and John Caird’s Broadway musical drama that enjoyed a pre-Broadway tryout at La Jolla Playhouse ...

Charlotte Brontë was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age. Her best-known character, Jane Eyre, endures as a woman who transcends time and social order. How Charlotte released Jane into the world ...

Every reader wonders what their favorite author was thinking as they wrote pages that would eventually become classics—but for the most part, one could only imagine the processes behind most works of ...

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 ...

I didn't read Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" until I was an adult, but I still reacted with all the whiny complaints of a 14-year-old boy. Unfortunately, I was teaching it to 14-year-old boys at the ...