Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of April 21st
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It is the 111th day of the year, leaving 254 days remaining in 2022.
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| Charlotte, in a portrait by her brother, Branwell |
She is best known for her novel, Jane Eyre, which helped define a new truthfulness in the Victorian-era novel. It was the the most popular in its time of any of the novels of the Brontë sisters, and it remains a classic and part of the canon of English literature.
Charlotte and her two sisters who survived into adulthood were published novelists and poets. But they still died young -- Anne at 29; Emily, who wrote Wuthering Heights, died at 30. Charlotte lived the longest, but was just 38 when she died from complications from pregnancy. The sisters first combined on a book of poetry published under pseudonyms, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Publishers then asked for a set of three-volume novels from the trio. Emily submitted Wuthering Heights, and Anne authored Agnes Grey. Charlotte's first submission, The Professor, was rejected, so she quickly finished Jane Eyre, which she had been working on.
It was a hit. Jane Eyre was written as an autobiography of a young girl, an orphan and governess to a Mr. Rochester, growing up in the England of the time. The novel focused on Jane's moral and spiritual development, then a unique take for a female character.
It contains satire and social criticism, along with discussions of class, religion, feminism, and female sexuality. It is considered one of the great British romance novels.
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