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  • Perhaps I'm partial, but this probably one of the best Gothic novels ever written. It has mystery, oppression, love, fire, and crazy woman in an large house. What more is needed? How about a leading lady the reader can actually connect with. So many other Gothic novels have heroines that are too per ... Continue

    Perhaps I'm partial, but this probably one of the best Gothic novels ever written. It has mystery, oppression, love, fire, and crazy woman in an large house. What more is needed? How about a leading lady the reader can actually connect with. So many other Gothic novels have heroines that are too perfect, Jane is just like the rest of us, imperfect. That's why this novel has stood the test of time.

    

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The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text-the last text corrected by the author. b>Contexts includes eighteen new selections and two new subsections: "Charlotte and Jane's Illustrated Book"-which includes a letter from Brontë to her publisher W. S. Williams; "Vignettes from Bewick"; and "Charlotte Brontë and Bewick's 'British Birds'"-and "Charlotte Brontë as Governess," which includes letters to Emily Brontë, Ellen Nussey, W. S. Williams, and "The Governess-Grinders." Criticism collects six major essays on Jane Eyre, four of them new to the Third Edition. Contributors include Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert, Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd. A new Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

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