Charlotte Brontë
Born
in Thornton, Yorkshire, England
April 21, 1816
Died
March 31, 1855
Genre
Influences
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Jane Eyre
10779 editions
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1846
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Villette
2508 editions
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published
1853
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Shirley
154 editions
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published
1849
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The Professor
1035 editions
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published
1857
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Emma
by
20 editions
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published
1860
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The Works of Charlotte and Emily Bronte
24 editions
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published
1920
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Jane Eyre / Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent / Agnes Grey
79 editions
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published
1847
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
by
187 editions
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published
1848
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Tales of Angria
by
9 editions
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published
1839
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Damas oscuras: Cuentos de fantasmas de escritoras victorianas eminentes
by
3 editions
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published
2017
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
Polls
January 2016 Old School Classic Poll
1880, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, 352 pages
1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages
1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, 160 pages
1857, The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, 269 pages
1594, The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, 112 pages
1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages
1857, Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, 985 pages
1862, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 244 pages
1872In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 384 pages
1853, Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 432 pages
1838, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, 288 pages
1895, Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, 272 pages
1846, Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac, 468 pages
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