Introduction by Diane Johnson
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton Virginia Woolf Elizabeth Rigby George Saintsbury and Anthony Trollope
Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847 Charlotte Bront?'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.' Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel Bront?'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. Passionate dramatic and surprisingly modern Jane Eyre endures as one of the world's most beloved novels.
