A famous novel and its readers: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)

Essay with images and links by Rosalind Crone. Part of the OpenLearn unit 'History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past'
Date Published: 16 August 2012
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Cite: A famous novel and its readers: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë at https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/culture/literature-and-creative-writing/history-reading-introduction-reading-the-past/content-section-4 via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/famous-novel-its-readers-charlotte-bront%C3%AB%E2%80%99s-jane-eyre-1847. Published on 16 August 2012. Accessed on 13 May 2026.
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