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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, most known for the novel Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition. She is one of the most famous Victorian women writers who experimented with the poetic forms that became the characteristic modes of this period. But after the success of Jane Eyre, Brontë gave up writing poetry.

Charlotte Brontë was the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature. Charlotte was not a successful poet in her day, and today she is still rightfully known for her novels rather than for her poems.

Brontë is an important figure in the history of 19th-century poetry because her career illustrates the shift in literary tastes from poetry to prose fiction.

"We read Charlotte Brontë not for exquisite observation of character — her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy — hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life — hers is that of a country parson’s daughter; but for her poetry," wrote Virginia Woolf in her essay on Brontë.

Funny fact: critics considered the Brontë sisters as one person.

As we know, Charlotte was the most popular with readers, but Ann and Emily were the first to publish their works. The three girls sent their novels to publishers. The manuscript of Charlotte was rejected six times, but the younger sisters were luckier — their texts were accepted. Coincidentally, Jane Eyre, much later accepted for publication, appeared on bookshelves before Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey — and immediately became a real bestseller of its time. Released somewhat later novels by Anne and Emily have not won the same favor of readers.

The phenomenal success of the elder Brontë has generated a lot of gossips. Some critics have argued that no sisters existed and that it was all a trick invented by the publisher, but in fact, the author of all three works was one woman, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Agnes Grey, the debut novel of Anne Brontë, were her less successful attempts to enter the world of great literature.
yıl ömür: 21 Nisan 1816 31 Mart 1855

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Anna Mészárosalıntı yaptı9 ay önce
“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not I.”

Mrs. Reed’s hands still lay on her work inactive: her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.

“What more have you to say?” she asked, rather in the tone in which a person might address an opponent of adult age than such as is ordinarily used to a child.

That eye of hers, that voice stirred every antipathy I had. Shaking from head to foot, thrilled with ungovernable excitement, I continued—

“I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.”

“How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?”

“How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the TRUTH. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back—roughly and violently thrust me back—into the red-room, and locked me up there, to my dying day; though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, ‘Have mercy! Have mercy, Aunt Reed!’ And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale. People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard– hearted. YOU are deceitful!”
Anna Mészárosalıntı yaptı8 ay önce
re was enveloped in a riding cloak, fur collared and steel clasped; its details were not apparent, but I traced the general points of middle height and considerable breadth of chest. He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him, and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked. I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one. I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should have shunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that is bright but antipathetic.

If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease: I retained my station
Anna Mészárosalıntı yaptı8 ay önce
He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady’s-maid.

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This story is about a person named Jane that struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes a governess at Thornfeild Hall.

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