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09级英语小说课程 班级:英语(师范)0901 姓名:吴朦 学号:1202090122 成绩: Jane Eyre: A Brave Lady —— An Analysis on Jane Eyre’s Characters 1. About the author Charlotte Bronte is a Novelist and Poet. Charlotte was the daughter of the Rev. Patrick Bronte, with her sisters Emily and Anne, Charlotte was brought up in a small parsonage in the Yorkshire village. While still in her childhood the Bronte sisters lost their mother and as the eldest Charlotte took up a role of looking out for her sisters Emily and Anne. Charlotte was described as: the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters. The sisters had an unusual upbringing in that their house overlooked the village grave yard. To escape from these surroundings and the loss of their mother they would often spend time creating stories of fantasy lands. Later in a poem Charlotte wrote: We wove a web in childhood, a web of sunny air. After various efforts as schoolmistresses and governesses, the sisters took to literature and published a volume of poems under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Unfortunately these early publications were a commercial failure. However this did not deter Charlotte and she continued with her novels such as The Professor and Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre proved to be tremendously popular with the public when it appeared in 1854. The novel has gained status as one of the classic works of English literature for its originality and strength of writing. Charlotte was married to her fathers curate, the Rev. A. Nicholls, but after a short though happy married life she died in childbirth in 1855. 2. The background Jane Eyre is set during the Victorian period, at a time where a women’s role in society was restrictive and repressive and class differences distinct. A Charlotte Bronte as a governess was one of the only few respectable positions available to the educated but impoverished single women. Bronte conveys to the reader the social injustices of the period, such as poverty, lack of u