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BIBLIOGRAPHY FURTHER READING CRITICAL WORKS

Basch, Francoise. Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel. New York: Schocken Books, 1974. Contains a useful chapter on "Revolt and Duty in the Brontes."

Bentley, Phyllis. The Brontes and Their World. New York: Viking Press, 1969. An illustrated look at the places and people associated with the Bronte sisters' lives and works. Bentley is also the author of a good short biography of the Bronte sisters.

Cecil, David. "Charlotte Bronte" in Early Victorian Novelists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958, pp. 100-135. Although he admires some aspects of Jane Eyre, Cecil concentrates on the novel's weaknesses.

Craik, W. A. The Bronte Novels. London: Gethuren, 1968. Defends the characterizations of Rochester and St. John.

Ewbank, Inga-Stina. Their Proper Sphere: A Study of the Bronte Sisters as Early Victorian Female Novelists. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. Life of Charlotte Bronte. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1908. An early biography by a woman writer who was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte. Well worth reading, even though not all of Mrs. Gaskell's facts and opinions are accepted today.

Gerin, Winifred. Charlotte Bronte: The Evolution of a Genius. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. The most complete and thoroughly researched biography of Charlotte.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. A Study of Women and the Literary Imagination in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

Gregor, Ian, ed. The Brontes: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970. A good source book.

Knies, Erik A. The Art of Charlotte Bronte. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1969.

McCullough, Bruce. "The Subjective Novel" in Representative English Novelists. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946, pp. 169-183. Sees Jane Eyre as an example of romanticism.

Martin, Robert Bernard. The Accents of Persuasion: Charlotte Bronte's Novels. New York: W. W.. Norton, 1966. Very useful on imagery, the supernatural, and the religious and moral themes of the story.

Moglen, Helene. Charlotte Bronte: The Self Conceived. New York: W. W. Norton, 1976. Good on the Byronic hero and the fairytale aspects of Bronte's novels.

O'Neill, Judith, ed. Criticism on Charlotte and Emily Bronte. Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1979.

Ratchford, Fannie E. The Brontes' Web of Childhood. New York: Russell & Russell, 1964. An interesting look at how Charlotte Bronte's childhood fantasies and writings influenced her mature novels.

Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977. A perceptive feminist critique.

Thorslev, Peter L. The Byronic Hero. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1962.

Tillotson, Kathleen. "Jane Eyre" in Novels of the Eighteen Forties. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Winnifrith, Tom. The Brontes. New York: Macmillan, 1977.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1957. (Originally published in 1929.)

AUTHOR'S OTHER WORKS

_____. Shirley. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. A tale of love and social unrest, set in England during the Napoleonic era.

_____. The Professor. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Bronte's first novel, not published until after her death, tells the story of an English schoolmaster in France who must choose between a well-to-do woman and the young student teacher he loves.

_____. Villette. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Besides Jane Eyre, the only Charlotte Bronte novel still much read today. The novel draws on Charlotte Bronte's experiences in Belgium; its heroine Lucy Snowe, is in some ways a darker more complex version of Jane Eyre.

Shorter, Clement. The Brontes: Life and Letters. 2 vol. New York: Haskell House, 1969. Charlotte Bronte's letters are filled with illuminating insight into the art of Jane Eyre as well as the author's own life. (Note: There are several other editions of the letters, and you will also find selections from them in a number of biographies and critical studies.)

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