![]() ![]() From its first printing, Jane Eyre was highly controversial, attracting the attention of readers and critics, whose opinions on the novel were divided (Harrison 2015). She began her literary career in 1846 when she and her sisters published a book of their poems (Editors 2009). She taught at a girls’ school and studied languages and school administration in Brussels in the hopes of opening a school with her sister Emily. Brontë, born in 1816, attended the Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire after her mother’s death when she was five. Although certainly not an autobiography, the novel incorporates Brontë’s own experiences and was received and criticized as one. ![]() She attends a harsh boarding school and becomes a governess to the ward of the mysterious Mr. ![]() The novel is written from the perspective of Jane Eyre, an orphan abandoned by her relatives. ![]() as an autobiography under her pseudonym, Currer Bell. Upon its initial publication, Jane Eyre was a controversial novel, creating a lot of buzz and receiving diverse reactions from readers and critics.Ĭharlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was first published on October 16 th of 1847 by Smith, Elder and Co. ![]()
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