![]() ![]() But that was unfair Charlotte is not Emily, and while there is certainly a lot of drama and some unreasonable passions in Jane Eyre, I found it to be a much better work. I did not much like Wuthering Heights by Charlotte's sister Emily, and I was expecting another tedious melodrama of unrealistic, unreasonable people filled with the sorts of inhuman passions only a secluded vicar's daughter with little actual experience of the world could write. ![]() To be honest, I expected to hate this book. ![]() Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world's most beloved novels. Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë's masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world's most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work "of great genius." ![]() Published 1847, approximately 187,000 words. Rochester is almost as big an asshole as Heathcliff. Inverarity Precursor to every modern romantic trope and an entire genre of infinitely inferior imitations. ![]()
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