4) Villette,《维莱特》, (p. 294. Para. 2.) a realistic description of her sad experiences at a boarding school in Brussels.
III. Jane Eyre by charlotte Bronte
Charlotte decided not to be married to look after Father; Later married to Father’s curate
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Representative works
• Emily:
• Wuthering Heights,《呼啸山庄》
1848, Emily died a victim of consumption(肺结核) 1848, Branwell died of the illness; 1849, Anne died of the same illness; Father lost his eyesight
Charlotte died less than a year after her marriage.
2) Jane Eyre,《简爱》 (masterpiece) p.295 (1) the criticism of the bourgeois system
of education; the Lowood school; (2) the description of the English country
Famous Sentences
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;--it is my spirit that addresses ythrough the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,--as we are!"