Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs

by Charlotte Brontë

Overview

A young governess falls in love with her reclusive employer in Charlotte Brontë’s classic coming-of-age novel. Featuring an exclusive foreword from Catherine Lowell and excerpt from her debut novel The Madwoman Upstairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501136993
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	12/08/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
Sales rank:	60,235
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Charlotte Bronte was born in 1816 in Haworth, Yorkshire. When she grew up, she became a teacher (later a private governess). In 1846 she pseudonymously published a book by herself and her sisters, Emily and Anne, which sold only two copies. Undaunted, Charlotte completed The Professor, which remained unpublished until after her death. But a kind note from one publisher encouraged her to finish Jane Eyre. In 1848, tragedy struck--her brother and two sisters died. Despite bouts of depression, she managed to write Shirley and Villette. Still, she never overcame her grief over the loss of her sisters and, beset by ill-health, she died in 1855.