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Jane Eyre and More: The Complete Collection of Works by: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre and More
Biography of Charlotte (Wikipedia)
Biography of Emily (Wikipedia)
Biography of Anne (Wikipedia)
Jane Eyre (1847)
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Agnes Grey (1847)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Shirley (1849)
Villette (1853)
The Professor (1857)
Poems (1846)
This exciting release includes the complete text of Jane Eyre. In addition, biographical information for the author Charlotte Brontë and a list of the characters in Jane Eyre is included! The “and More” part does not stop there, though! Charlotte’s other three finished novels (with a list of characters for each) are included. The finished novels of Charlotte’s sisters Emily and Anne (with a list of characters for each novel) are also included, as well as biographical information for Emily and Anne. Finally, a collection of poems written by each of the sisters completes this collection!
Kindle’s “Go To” feature allows you to easily go to each work. Each work also includes a table of contents allowing you to go to each chapter or section within the work. This combination makes navigation a breeze!
Each of the works in this collection is presented in a clean format (giving you complete control over fonts and font sizes). Below is a list of each of the works included in this collection.
Biography of Charlotte (Wikipedia)
Biography of Emily (Wikipedia)
Biography of Anne (Wikipedia)
Jane Eyre (1847)
Wuthering Heights (1847)
Agnes Grey (1847)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Shirley (1849)
Villette (1853)
The Professor (1857)
Poems (1846)
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Published December 6, 2015
About the author
Charlotte Brontë
2,400 books19.6k followersCharlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.
Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family.
In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school.
At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily, and Anne — continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826 her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called 'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories, poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of creativity was that:
'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.'
After her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Brontë left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835 to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity.
Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855.
Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family.
In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school.
At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily, and Anne — continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826 her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called 'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories, poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of creativity was that:
'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.'
After her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre.
Brontë left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835 to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity.
Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855.
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July 19, 2017
What can you say about these books that has not been said before? I enjoyed everyone of them. It took me awhile but now I've read them all!
January 13, 2016
I like Nathan Ogden's premise of compiling one book that contains all the works of an author. Nathan has graciously given me an eBook version of his work, Jane Eyre and More. I have not read the whole volume, but have studied sections of the book. The book cover evokes memories of the Bronte sisters. The separate, brief biography on each sister relates just enough information to entice the reader to search for a more comprehensive biography. I am anxious to read the writings of each of the Brontes, as this past summer, I revisited Jane Eyre, and found the journey delightful. What language and description! My only disappointment is the table of contents, which needs to be listed better and needs to give a page number.
August 27, 2016
Was given a free copy by the author to write a review of this book. This is a collection of works by the three Bronte sisters. Every work has an introductory section where the author describes each character who will appear in the story. This book is great for someone who already read the books since it gives a LOT of spoilers in the character's description, e.g., John romantically ends up with Mary at the end of the story.
Since it gives many spoilers about the works, I would recommend it to people who already read the books but want to read them again with a helpful reminder of whom is whom in the stories.
Just a small observation: the book needs some editing since I found many errors in grammar and punctuation. More like typos, I would say.
Since it gives many spoilers about the works, I would recommend it to people who already read the books but want to read them again with a helpful reminder of whom is whom in the stories.
Just a small observation: the book needs some editing since I found many errors in grammar and punctuation. More like typos, I would say.
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