Short description
The Jane Eyre text reprinted in this edition is that of the 1848 third edition text - the last to be corrected by Bronte. The critical material accompanying the novel includes six essays and letters from the author.
Long description
Contexts includes eighteen new selections and two new subsections: Charlotte and Jane 's Illustrated Book which includes a letter from Bront to her publisher W. S. Williams; Vignettes from Bewick ; and Charlotte Bront and Bewick 's British Birds and Charlotte Bront as Governess, which includes letters to Emily Bront, Ellen Nussey, W. S. Williams, and The Governess-Grinders. Criticism collects six major essays on Jane Eyre, four of them new to the Third Edition. Contributors include Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert, Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd. A new Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.