Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
An orphan becomes a governess and refuses every arrangement that would make her less than a person. The house at Thornfield holds a secret the marriage plot cannot step around.
Author
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a first-person account of work, conscience, and desire that refuses to treat the heroine as scenery. It remains one of the clearest voices in the nineteenth-century novel.
The Professor
The Professor
The Professor was written in before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses. The Professor was eventually published, posthumously, with the approval of Charlotte Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who took on the task of reviewing and editing the text.
Villette
Villette
After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional Continental Europe city of Villette to teach at a girls' school. Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel published during her life.
Shirley
Shirley
Shirley was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). Shirley is set in Yorkshire, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War.