V. Jane Eyre
1. Analyze the work
• The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. At the same time , it is an intense moral fable. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.
III. works
Novels • 1847年：代表作《简· 爱》（Jane Eyre） • 1849年：《雪莉》（Shirley） • 1853年：《维莱特》（Villette） • 1857年：《教师》（The Professor）， 创作于《简爱》之前，不过因为许多出版 社拒绝出版，所以直到夏洛蒂死后才出版
• After the death of Emily & Anne， Charlotte continued writing. Her next important novel Shirley， a work about the industrial troubles between the mill-owners & machine-breakers in Yorkshire in 1811-1812 came out in 1849.
Emily Brontë (1818—1848)
Anne Brontë (1820— 1849)
• 勃朗特家庭是一个天才的家庭，姐妹三 人包括酗酒的弟弟勃兰威尔都具有非凡 的文学才能。但在勃朗特家庭引起广泛 关注的1847年后。1848年9月，家庭“骄 傲和希望”的勃兰威尔因酗酒、吸毒而 染病去世。身体柔弱的艾米莉痛惜胞兄 早逝，在葬礼当天感染了肺结核，她拒 绝任何治疗，同年12月19日病死在书房 的长沙发上。次年，安妮也因肺病离开 了人间。这个不幸的家庭显得十分凄苦， 神秘，但在英国文坛却光辉耀眼。
II. Life
For some time， they worked in a boarding school and were subsequently governesses in rich families. Charlotte & her two younger sisters had a great fondness for literature. In 1845 appeared a volume of poetry entitled Poems by Carrer， Ellis and Acton Bell （the pseudonyms of Charlotte， Emily and Anne）， but received little attention. Then the three sisters turned to novel writing.
• Charlotte's first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher. But her second one， Jane Eyre， won immediate success when it appeared in 1847. In the same year， Emily's single and unique work Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were also published. Soon they were followed by Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall （1848）。
勃朗特故居位于约克郡Bradford（布拉福德）西
北部的Haworth（霍华斯）小镇。
这张照片是故居中的厨房，艾米丽经常在这里 试新的菜谱，为家人做各种点心、面包。
勃朗特姊妹短暂的生命历程，而其内涵却是深邃而丰富的。教堂是三姐妹的父 亲布道的地方，夏洛蒂的婚礼也是在这里举行的（她嫁给了她父亲的助手，也是 一名牧师，不过婚后八个月就去世了）。勃朗特三姐妹都挺短命的，分别活了３ ９岁、３０岁和２９岁。夏洛蒂已经是三姐妹中最长寿的一位，她和艾米丽都埋 葬在这座教堂里。妹妹安妮葬在Scarborough。
Poetry
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《from Retrospection》：创 作于1835年 • 1846年：《库瑞尔、艾利斯与 阿克顿· 贝尔的诗集》（Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell）： 由勃朗特三姐妹联合出版。
ⅣBrontë sisters
• The Brontësisters, Charlotte (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), Emily (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) and Anne (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature.
• Jane Eyre represents those middle-class workingwomen who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings and her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.
IV. Charlotte's Literary Creation
• Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization， about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full， happy life. In her mind, man’s life is composed of perpetual battle between sin and virtue, good and evil. Besides，she is a writer of realism combined with romanticism.
•Another novel Villette appeared in 1853. This is her most autobiographical work， largely based on her experience in Brussels. In 1854， charlotte married her father's curate. She died a few months later in pregnancy. The Professor， her first written work， was published posthumously in 1857.
Charlotte Brontë (1816— 1855 )
ⅠIntroduction
• Born 21 April 1816(1816-04-21) Thornton, Yorkshire, England • Died 31 March 1855 (aged 38) Haworth, Yorkshire, England • Pen name Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley Currer Bell • Occupation governess, novelist, poet • Notable works Jane Eyre, Villette
2. Jane Eyre&e Eyre， an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved， a poor， plain， little governess who dares to love her master， a man superior to her in many ways， and even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him， cuts a completely new woman image. In this novel Charlotte characterizes Jane Eyre as a naive， kind-hearted， nobleminded woman who pursues a genuine kind of love.
Her father was a clergyman at Haworth， Yorkshire. When they were young， the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The oldest two died there due to the poor and unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel Jane Eyre. After the death of the elder sisters， Charlotte and Emily were brought home to be educated by their father.