Jane Eyre National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015) and the West

and the West

partly because of limited references to the family of Jesus in the Bible

and escaping the roles we are forced to play

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Jane Eyre National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015) and the WestJane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Bront, a young woman from a