When did Charlotte Brontë begin writing Jane Eyre?
Charlotte Brontë began writing Jane Eyre in Manchester during the summer of 1845. She drew directly from her own childhood trauma and family history to create the early sequences of the novel.
Questions about Jane Eyre
Short answers, pulled from the story.
Where was Lowood School based on in real life?
Lowood School mirrors the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge near Tunstall, Lancashire. The character Mr Brocklehurst was based on Rev William Carus Wilson who ran the actual institution where Charlotte's sisters Elizabeth and Maria died of consumption due to terrible conditions.
How much money does Jane inherit from Uncle John Eyre?
Jane inherits twenty thousand pounds from Uncle John Eyre after St John Rivers rescues her at Moor House. She shares this sum equally with Diana and Mary Rivers to gain financial independence.
Who reviewed Jane Eyre as an anti-Christian composition in 1848?
Elizabeth Rigby reviewed Jane Eyre in The Quarterly Review in 1848 and called it pre-eminently an anti-Christian composition. She declared that the tone of mind and thought which wrote Jane Eyre fostered Chartism and rebellion at home.
When did Jean Rhys publish Wide Sargasso Sea?
Jean Rhys published Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 and won the WH Smith Literary Award the following year. Her novel reimagines Bertha Antoinetta Mason as a Creole woman from Dominica who marries Mr Rochester under mistaken assumptions about each other.