Jane Eyre
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to
the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless
emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested
once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired
by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle.
Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in
love. Hard.
But there is a terrifying secret inside the
gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. What is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will
Jane be left heartbroken and exiled once again? Jane discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that
transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a richer
life than that traditionally allowed women in Victorian society.
JANE EYRE (1971)
Jane Eyre (Susannah York), an orphan sent to Lowood school, eventually becomes a
governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. But despite
mysterious occurrences while there, she and Edward Rochester (George C. Scott), owner of
Thornfield and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Right when Jane is about
to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, which
needs all her courage, love, and maturity to triumph.
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë was a British
novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose
novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.
Charlotte
Brontë was born on April 21, 1816
in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six
children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish
Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the
family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire
moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where
the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell
Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821,
leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister
Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family.
In
August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and
Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in
Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she
would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific
experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were
regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the
slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a
bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the
school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and
Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school
deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised
the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school.
At
home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children —
Branwell, Emily, and Anne — continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826
her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They
would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative
development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for
the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called
'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories,
poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of
creativity was that:
'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and
each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of
life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had
known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.'
After
her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again
sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield
from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and
correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833),
she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The
school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor
was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost
of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and
inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Brontë
left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835
to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily
and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë
and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick
family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the
world, and partly from financial necessity.
Charlotte became
pregnant soon after her wedding in June 1854 to Irishman Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate. Sadly, her health declined rapidly and,
according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by
"sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died,
with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855.
https://www.biography.com/writer/charlotte-bronte
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