March 16, 2009
Jane Eyre
Written by Charlotte Brontë
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow—creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex."
—Chapter 12, page 115
Fun Facts
•Charlotte was the oldest of the three famed Brontë sisters and nurtured the growth of their careers.•Like her sisters, Charlotte wrote under a masculine name to hide the fact that she was a woman. The name she used was Currer Bell.
•Though she is best known for writing Jane Eyre, which is a highly revered work of English Literature, she also penned the novels Shirley and Villette.
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