✍ Shmoop
📂 Fiction
📅 2010
🏛 Shmoop University Inc
🌐 English
⚖ 128 KB
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✦ LIBER ✦
The secret history of Jane Eyre: how Charlotte Brontë wrote her masterpiece
✍ Scribed by John Pfordresher
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
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...
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