Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre" (Norton Critical Editions), 3rd Edition

This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition again reprints, with expanded explanatory footnotes, the 1848 third edition text, the last corrected by Charlotte Brontë.

The newly expanded and reorganized "Contexts" section provides an extensive sampling of materials concerning Brontë's experiences as a student, governess, and teacher, experiences that influenced her portrayal of Jane Eyre at Lowood school and as the governess of Thornfield Hall. New to the Third Edition are illustrations from and commentary upon Brontë's use of Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds. Numerous letters document Jane Eyre's publication and reception history, including Brontë's retorts to negative reviews by Elizabeth Rigby and The Christian Remembrancer. Expanded excerpts from Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë provide a fellow novelist's comments upon Brontë as a woman author and help to explain Brontë's reactions to her critics.

"Criticism" retains major feminist readings by Adrienne Rich and Sandra M. Gilbert and newly includes essays by Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Contents

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Preface to the Third Norton Critical Edition The Text of Jane Eyre Contexts  Charlotte Brontë as Student, Governess, and Teacher  School Register: Clergy Daughters' School  Report of the Cowan Bridge School for Clergymen's Daughters  From The Children's Friend  Charlotte Brontë at Roe Head   Christine Alexander • Introduction to Brontë's Juvenilia   "Well, here I am at Roe Head"   "Now as I have a little bit of time"   "All this day I have been in a dream"   "I'm just going to write because I cannot help it"   "My compliments to the weather"   "About a week since I got a letter from Branwell"   Retrospection   From "Henry Hastings"   Farewell to Angria  Charlotte's and Jane's Illustrated Book   To W. S. Williams, March 11, 1848   Vignettes from Bewick   Jane W. Stedman • Charlotte Brontë and Bewick's "British Birds"  Charlotte Brontë as Governess   To Emily J. Brontë, June 8, 1839   To Ellen Nussey, June 30, 1839   To W. S. Williams, May 12, 1848   "The Governess-Grinders"  Charlotte Brontë and Her Publishers, Reviewers, and First Biographer   To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 7, 1847   To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 24, 1847   To Smith, Elder, & Co., September 12, 1847   To W. S. Williams, October 28, 1847   To W. S. Williams, January 28, 1848   To G. H. Lewes, November 6, 1847   G. H. Lewes, Fraser s Magazine, December 1847   To W. S. Williams, December 11, 1847   To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848   To W. S. Williams, Early September 1848  The Christian Remembrancer and The Quarterly   From The Christian Remembrancer, January 1848   Elizabeth Rigby, The Quarterly Review, December 1848   To W. S. Williams, January 2, 1849   To W. S. Williams, February 10[?], 1849   To W. S. Williams, August 16, 1849   From "A Word to The Quarterly"  Elizabeth Gaskell   Charlotte Brontë and the Critics   Charlotte Brontë: Author and Woman   First Impressions of Charlotte Brontë   Charlotte Brontë at Home   Charlotte Brontë's Working Habits Criticism  Adrienne Rich • Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a Motherless Woman  Sandra M. Gilbert • A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress  Jerome Beaty • St. John's Way and the Wayward Reader  Lisa Sternlieb • Jane Eyre: "Hazarding Confidences"  Jeffrey Sconce • [The Cinematic Reconstitution of Jane Eyre]  Donna Marie Nudd • The Pleasure of Intertextuality: Reading Jane Eyre Television and Film Adaptations Charlotte Brontë: A Chronology Selected Bibliography

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