ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist best known for Jane Eyre (1847), the story of an independent young governess who overcomes hardships while remaining true to her principles. It blended moral realism with Gothic elements. Her other novels included Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853).

Detailed explanation-2: -Shirley, A Tale is a social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It was Brontë’s second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë’s pseudonym Currer Bell).

Detailed explanation-3: -Most famous for her passionate novel Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë also published poems and three other novels. She was the third of six children of Patrick Brontë, an Irish crofter’s son who rose via a Cambridge education to become, in 1820, a perpetual curate at Haworth, in Yorkshire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Villette is Charlotte Brontë’s powerful autobiographical novel of one woman’s search for true love, edited with an introduction by Helen M. Cooper in Penguin Classics. With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls’ boarding school in the small town of Villette.

Detailed explanation-5: -Jane Eyre, published in 1847. Shirley, published in 1849. Villette, published in 1853. The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, was first submitted together with Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. More items