Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. London: Penguin Books, 1996.
  • Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre. New York: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2007.
  • Elsie B. Michie. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea. New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 2001.
  • Jasper Fforde. The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel. New York: Penguin Books, Ltd., 2001.
  • Sue Thomas. Imperialism, Reform, and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • Lorna Ellis. Appearing to Diminish: Female Development and the British Bildungsroman, 1750-1850. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1999.
  • Karen Smith Kenyon. The Brontë Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses. Breckenridge: Twenty-First Century Books, 2002.
  • Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale Nota Bene, 2000.
  • Freeman, Janet H. "Speech and Silence in Jane Eyre" in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 24, No. 4, Nineteenth Century (Autumn 1984), pp. 683-700.

  • Solomon, Eric. "Jane Eyre: Fire and Water" in College English, Vol. 25, No. 3 (December 1963), pp. 215-217.

  • Kreilkamp, Ivan. "Unuttered: Withheld Speech and Female Authorship in 'Jane Eyre' and 'Villette'" in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 32, No. 3, Victorian Fiction after New Historicism (Summer 1999), pp. 331-354.

  • Gilbert, Sandra M. "Plain Jane's Progress" in Signs, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1977), pp. 779-804.

  • Grudin, Peter. "Jane and the Other Mrs. Rochester: Excess and Restraint in 'Jane Eyre'" in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Winter 1977), pp. 145-157.

  • David Cody. "Charlotte Bronte: A Brief Biography." The Victorian Web. 2006-04-19. 2009-01-11. <http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/cbronte/brontbio.html>.
  • Jessica Menzo Russel Whitaker. "The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Introduction." Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism on eNotes.com. 2006-01-01. 2009-01-14. <http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/governess-nineteenth-century-literature>.