Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate.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 ...

The Bronte sisters never seem to go out of style, thanks to their timeless novels, their untimely deaths and the tragedies that befell them in life and love. Modern readers remain mesmerized by ...

Charlotte Bronte’s 1847 novel “Jane Eyre” has been a warhorse of the movies since the silent era, with at least 18 theatrical and TV adaptations -- or about one every five years for the last century.

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 ...

Every reader wonders what their favorite author was thinking as they wrote pages that would eventually become classics—but for the most part, one could only imagine the processes behind most works of ...

Jane Eyre, poor and plain, begins her life as an orphan in the household of her horrible, hateful aunt. Despite the way she is treated by her aunt — oppressive to say the least — Jane endures her ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...