Jane Eyre(简写).doc

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Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte 江汉大学 外国语学院 英语系 2005 Introduction CHARLOITE BRONTE, born in 1816, was the daughter of an Irishman who married a Cornishwoman and became a priest of the Church of England. He had charge of a church in a wild part of Yorkshire. There were six children. Four of the girls, including Charlotte and her sister Emily (who later wrote the novel Wuthering Heights) were sent to a school at Cowan’s Bridge: this school is described in Chapters 6 – 11 of Jane Eyre. Helen Bums in the story is an exact picture of Charlotte’s elder sister Maria and of her unkind treatment at this school. Charlotte afterwards went to another school at Roehead, and later became a teacher there. Having the idea of starting a school of her own, she went to Brussels to study French: she draws a picture of this part of her life in her novel Villette. Her school was a failure. Her father began to go blind; her brother became a heavy drinker; her sister Emily developed a disease of the lungs. At this time Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre. Her other novels were The Professor, Shirley and Villette. She married Arthur Nicholls (a priest of the Church of England) and died one year later, in 1855. Chapter 1 Gateshead There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had, indeed, been wandering in the leafless garden for an hour in the morning, but since dinner, the cold winter wind had brought with it such dark clouds and such heavy rain that further exercise out of doors was impossible. I was glad of it. I never liked long walks, especially on cold afternoons. Coming home in the twilight was terrible to me with frozen fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the scoldings of Bessie the nurse and by the consciousness of how weak my thin little body was, compared with those of Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed. Eliza, John and Georgiana were now gathered round their mama in the drawing room at Gateshead, their home. She lay resting by the fireside, and with her loved ones near her, for

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