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“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who…

— Hope Nicholson

“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the same person…

— Ian Gregor

“[On Wuthering Heights] Here, all the faults of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë are magnified a thousand fold, and the only consolation which we…

— James Lorimer

“I was reading Charlotte Bronte, and Jane was being serenaded by Mr. Rochester. (I see the source of all my problems: a Bronte was…

— Zen Cho

“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred…

— Virginia Woolf

“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the particular practices…

— Karen Swallow Prior

“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing…

— Alice Munro

“The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were simply the…

— Ian Gregor

“Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. I would give everything to ensure the novel's survival.”

— Jasper Fforde