Charlotte Bronte
''If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed'', wrote Charlotte Brontë, the outwardly conventional parson''s daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre was published in 1847.
From the landscape of the Yorkshire moors, an appalling childhood and a family decimated by consumption, Jane Eyre came as an instant literary sensation. ...
''If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed'', wrote Charlotte Brontë, the outwardly conventional parson''s daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre was published in 1847.
From the landscape of the Yorkshire moors, an appalling childhood and a family decimated by consumption, Jane Eyre came as an instant literary sensation. ...
