Charlotte Brontë

Michael Mason

Retells the classic story of an orphaned young woman who accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer.

Jane Eyre

Villette

The early life of Jane Eyre, an orphan, takes her from the loveless home of the Reeds to Lowood, a charity school where she is first pupil and the teacher, before she moves to a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. The master of the house, Edward Fairfax Rochester, is a firm, swarthy and engaging man, and by the time he asks Jane, in his own teasing fashion, to be his wife, she knows she will accept him. But there is an impediment to their marriage, and when it is revealed on their wedding day it sends Jane fleeing into the unknown, and further trials on her redoubtable character. Jane Eyre was an immediate success when it was published in 1847, and the dramatic story, centred upon a young woman of impressive independence and integrity of spirit, has assured it a place as one of the most enduringly popular novels in the language.

Englische Originalausgabe

SHIRLEY; ED. BY JESSICA COX.

The Professor

Jane Austen

The ruthless and cruel Emma causes a great many problems for Mrs. Chalfont, the narrator, and for the abandoned child, Martina, in a new completion of Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel

Emma

CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816-1855), daughter of Patrick Brontë, an Irishman, perpetual curate of Haworth, Yorkshire. Charlotte´s mother died in 1821. Leaving five daughters and a son to the care of their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell. Four of the daughters were sent to a Clergy Daughters´School at Cowan Bridge, which Charlotte portrayed as Lowood in "Jane Eyre". In 1825 her two elder sisters died. The surviving children pursued their education at home; they read widely, and became involved in a rich fantasy life that owes much to their admiration of Byron, Sir Walter Scott, the "Arabian Nights", the "Tales of the Genii" and the engravings of J. Martin. They began to write stories, to produce magazines. Charlotte and Branwell collaborate in the elaborate invention of the imaginary kingdom of "Angria" and Emily and Anne in the invention of "Gondal". "Villette" is an 1853 novel by Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.

Vilette

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her complex feelings, first for school's English doctor and then for dictatorial professor.

Penguin English Library Villette

In 1834, Charlotte Bronte and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. The five novelettes' in this volume were written by Charlotte, and depict a aristocratic beau monde in ironic language. She creates an atmosphere of intrigue and destructive passions.

Tales of Angria

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power." Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette.

Villete

Sherri Browning Erwin

“ READER, I BURIED HIM . ” A timeless tale of love, devotion . . . and the undead. Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he’s hiding a violent werewolf in the attic—in the form of his first wife. Can a menagerie of bloodthirsty, flesh-eating, savage creatures-of-the-night keep a swashbuckling nineteenth-century lady from the gentleman she intends to marry? Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Brontë’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify. Featuring a Gallery Books Readers Guide

Jane Slayre

Reads from right to left in traditional manga format.

Manga Classics

Classics Jane Eyre

the Jane Eyre Company

Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Brontë's story of the trailblazing Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and dynamic production uncovers one woman's fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms. From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane Eyre's spirited heroine faces life's obstacles head-on, surviving poverty, injustice and the discovery of bitter betrayal before taking the ultimate decision to follow her heart. This inventive staging of Brontë's masterpiece was first staged by Bristol Old Vic in 2014, when the story was performed over two evenings. Director Sally Cookson now brings her celebrated production to the National Theatre, presented as a single, exhilarating performance.

Containing witty vignettes, that is set in the author's imaginary world of Angria, this book features debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero Zamorna.

Stancliffe's Hotel

Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, this novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the Government and an inadequate Church. Moore, a mill owner who ignores the suffering of his workers, affects the lives of Caroline and Shirley.

Shirley

An Autobiography ; in Two Volumes

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

جين اير

Amy Corzine

Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of Brontë's story of Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, who learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence. As a governess in service to the reclusive and solitary Mr. Rochester, Jane develops a secret love for him which he senses and reciprocates.

Charlotte Brontë

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