Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate.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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The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece. By John Pfordresher. W.W. Norton; 254 pages; $26.95; £20. CRITICS relish a bit of detective work. Four hundred years after ...

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Two hundred years since the birth of Charlotte Bronte, her most famous work, “Jane Eyre” still enthralls us. Its most famous line serves as the title of a new book, “Reader, I Married Him,” edited by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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