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Figure: Charlotte Brontë
Contribution: Authored Jane Eyre
The Brontë sisters are known for publishing some of the classics, including Wuthering Heights and Agnes Gray, as well as a novel of poems they wrote together. It was October 6, 1947 when Charlotte Brontë published her novel Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Jane Eyre depicts the story of a young orphan who faces suffering and abuse as a child until she grows into a teacher, and applies for the position of governess at Thornfield manner. There she teaches the girl Adèle, grows accustomed to the staff, and falls in love with the lord of the manor, Mr. Rochester. She almost marries him, until at the last minute Rochester already has a wife. She runs away and meets up with three cousins, almost marries one of them, but realizes she can never love anyone but Mr. Rochester and returns to find that he lost a hand and his eyesight in a fire. His wife is also dead. They marry, and have kids, and it's a nice little ending for them both.
(It is a much better book than that summary.)
Unfortunately all of Charlotte's sisters died within the next two years, and she died five years later.
Since then Jane Eyre has been republished under her own name, and has also been turned into at least two movies and a musical.
Information Credits: SparkNotes, A+E Television Networks, LLC.
