The English author Charlotte Bronte wrote the book, Jane Eyre. The main character of the book tells the story in the first person. It takes place at the end of George III's reign, somewhere in the north of England (1760-1820). There are five main phases: Jane's upbringing at Gateshead Hall, where her aunt and cousins abuse her physically and verbally; her schooling at Lowood School, where she makes friends and role models but experiences persecution and deprivation; Her time as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets her enigmatic employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester, and falls in love; her time in the Moor House, where her earnest but icy clergyman cousin, St. John Rivers, proposes to her; and finally, her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester. It offers viewpoints on a variety of significant societal topics and concepts throughout these parts, many of which are critical of the existing quo. Charlotte Brontë.
(Thornton, 1816 - Haworth, 1855) Escritora británica, la mayor de las tres hermanas Brontë (Charlotte, Emily y Anne) y la única que disfrutó de popularidad en vida gracias a Jane Eyre (1847), novela que la consagró en el mundo literario. Hija del pastor anglicano Patrick Brontë, Charlotte Brontë vivió con su familia durante la mayor parte de su infancia, en medio de aquel agreste y desolado paisaje que habría de reaparecer como fondo de los fantásticos y románticos episodios de sus novelas y de las de su hermana Emily.
