The Secret History Of Jane Eyre How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

Author : John Pfordresher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393248883

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The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece by John Pfordresher Pdf

The surprising hidden history behind Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Why did Charlotte Brontë go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Brontë’s compulsion to write her masterpiece and why she then turned around and vehemently disavowed it. Few people know how quickly Brontë composed Jane Eyre. Nor do many know that she wrote it during a devastating and anxious period in her life. Thwarted in her passionate, secret, and forbidden love for a married man, she found herself living in a home suddenly imperiled by the fact that her father, a minister, the sole support of the family, was on the brink of blindness. After his hasty operation, as she nursed him in an isolated apartment kept dark to help him heal his eyes, Brontë began writing Jane Eyre, an invigorating romance that, despite her own fears and sorrows, gives voice to a powerfully rebellious and ultimately optimistic woman’s spirit. The Secret History of Jane Eyre expands our understanding of both Jane Eyre and the inner life of its notoriously private author. Pfordresher connects the people Brontë knew and the events she lived to the characters and story in the novel, and he explores how her fecund imagination used her inner life to shape one of the world’s most popular novels. By aligning his insights into Brontë’s life with the timeless characters, harrowing plot, and forbidden romance of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature’s most beloved heroines and her passionate creator, and arrives at a new understanding of Brontë’s brilliant, immersive genius.

Author : John Pfordresher
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393248876

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The Secret History of Jane Eyre by John Pfordresher Pdf

The surprising hidden history behind Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Why did Charlotte Brontë go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Brontë’s compulsion to write her masterpiece and why she then turned around and vehemently disavowed it. Few people know how quickly Brontë composed Jane Eyre. Nor do many know that she wrote it during a devastating and anxious period in her life. Thwarted in her passionate, secret, and forbidden love for a married man, she found herself living in a home suddenly imperiled by the fact that her father, a minister, the sole support of the family, was on the brink of blindness. After his hasty operation, as she nursed him in an isolated apartment kept dark to help him heal his eyes, Brontë began writing Jane Eyre, an invigorating romance that, despite her own fears and sorrows, gives voice to a powerfully rebellious and ultimately optimistic woman’s spirit. The Secret History of Jane Eyre expands our understanding of both Jane Eyre and the inner life of its notoriously private author. Pfordresher connects the people Brontë knew and the events she lived to the characters and story in the novel, and he explores how her fecund imagination used her inner life to shape one of the world’s most popular novels. By aligning his insights into Brontë’s life with the timeless characters, harrowing plot, and forbidden romance of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature’s most beloved heroines and her passionate creator, and arrives at a new understanding of Brontë’s brilliant, immersive genius.

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045046245

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199576968

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Selected Letters by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

Illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates, this book offers a valuable selection of letters written by Charlotte Bronte ̈from her schooldays to her death in 1855 - chosen by the editor of the complete correspondence. Biographical notes introduce Charlotte's family, friends, and correspondents.

Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307363213

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Charlotte Brontë by Claire Harman Pdf

A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in which loss and heartache existed alongside rebellion and fierce ambition. Harman seizes on a crucial moment in the 1840s when Charlotte worked at a girls' school in Brussels and fell hopelessly in love with the husband of the school's headmistress. Her torment spawned her first attempts at writing for publication, and he haunts the pages of every one of her novels--he is Rochester in Jane Eyre, Paul Emanuel in Villette. Another unrequited love--for her publisher--paved the way for Charlotte to enter a marriage that ultimately made her happier than she ever imagined. Drawing on correspondence unavailable to previous biographers, Claire Harman establishes Brontë as the heroine of her own story, one as dramatic and triumphant as one of her own novels.

Author : Charlotte Bronte
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535463589

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Pdf

Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Brontë's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature.Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature.Source: Wikipedia

Author : Lucasta Miller
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Haworth (England)
ISBN : 0224037455

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The Brontë Myth by Lucasta Miller Pdf

"This book has as its subject the manipulation of a reputation." "Its starting point is Charlotte Bronte's attempt to manage her own and her sisters' public image in the face of Victorian prejudice against their passionate novels. Their first biographer, Mrs. Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one of the great legends of the nineteenth century, a dramatic tale of three lonely sisters playing out their tragic destiny on top of a windswept moor. Lucasta Miller reveals where this image came from and how it took such a hold on the popular imagination." "Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing."

Author : Glynnis Fawkes
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781368051569

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Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre by Glynnis Fawkes Pdf

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! Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers of all ages and revered as a masterwork of literary prowess. But what of the famous writer herself? Originally published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, Jane Eyre was born out of a magnificent, vivid imagination, a deep cultivation of skill, and immense personal hardship and tragedy. Charlotte, like her sisters Emily and Anne, was passionate about her work. She sought to cast an empathetic lens on characters often ignored by popular literature of the time, questioning societal assumptions with a sharp intellect and changing forever the landscape of western literature. With an introduction by Alison Bechdel, Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre presents a stunning examination of a woman who battled against the odds to make her voice heard.

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Belgium
ISBN : NYPL:33433074930144

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Villette by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

"First published in 1853, Villette draws from Charlotte Bronte's experiences in Brussels in the 1840's. In this emotionally charged tale, we see Lucy Snowe's response to the challenges of her restrictive social environment as she flees from her unhappy past in England to a new life as a teacher at Madame Beck's school in Villette. This new edition features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is derived from the earliest printings of Bront"e's great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel.

Author : Arbuckle, Gerald, A.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337552

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Loneliness by Arbuckle, Gerald, A. Pdf

Author : Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840220600

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The Bronte Sisters by Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë Pdf

Includes the novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Author : Bethany Layne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781527555365

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Biofiction and Writers’ Afterlives by Bethany Layne Pdf

The twelve essays collected in this work explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biographical fiction, or biofiction, and its sister genre, the biopic. The essays situate these genres in relation to their generic, cultural, and ideological contexts, and are organised into four groups. The first locates the origins of biofiction in the historical novel, and in Modernist experiments in life writing, while the second consists of case studies of biofiction about writers from the long nineteenth century: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Rupert Brooke. A guest essay by novelist Maggie Gee opens the third group, which analyses the fertile sub-genre of biographical novels about Woolf, while the fourth and final part of the book concerns the related genre of the biopic. The volume is comprised entirely of original commissions, whose authors include postgraduate students, practitioners and specialists in biographical writing. It will appeal to undergraduates and postgraduates on life writing and contemporary literature modules, as well as fans of the featured biographical novelists and their subjects.

Author : Catherine Lowell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501124211

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The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell Pdf

"A debut novel about the last remaining descendant of the Brontees who discovers that her recently deceased father has left her a treasure hunt that may lead to the long-rumored secret literary estate"--

Author : John Pfordresher
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0809144530

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Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination by John Pfordresher Pdf

"Authentic hope is the gift Rebecca Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci offer readers of EcoJustice Education.... We learn what it means to recover the ancient arts and skills of cultivating commons, common sense, and community collaborations in our hard times." Madhu Suri Prakash, Pennsylvania State University "EcoJustice Education should become a core part of teacher education programs across the country as it provides both the theory and examples of classroom practices essential for making the transition to a sustainable future." C. A. Bowers, author, international speaker, and retired professor Designed for introductory social foundations or multicultural education courses, this text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and sustainable societies in an increasingly globalized world. The Companion Website for this book (www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415872515) offers a wealth of resources linked to each chapter.

Author : Charlotte Bronte
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798459582833

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Jane Eyre, The Original 1847 Edition (A Classic Illustrated Novel of Charlotte Bronte) by Charlotte Bronte Pdf

Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Brontë's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature.