Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Brontë, Charlotte. pseud. Currer Bell

London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1847

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1847

George Eliot to Charles Bray, 11 June 1848. “I have read Jane Eyre, mon ami, and shall be glad to know what you admire in it. All self-sacrifice is good -- but one would like it to be in a somewhat nobler cause than that of a diabolical law which chains a man soul and body to a putrefying carcase. However the book is interesting -- only I wish the characters would talk a little less like the heroes and heroines of police reports.” GEL 1: 228

Brontë, Charlotte. pseud. Currer Bell, Jane Eyre, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57351

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