Numerous letters document Jane Eyre's publication and reception history, including Bront's retorts to negative reviews by Elizabeth ligby and The Christian Remembrancer. Expanded excerpts from Elizabeth Gaskell's.

This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition again reprints, with expanded explanatory footnotes,the 1848 third edition text, the last corrected by Charlotte Bronte.

The newly expanded and reorganized "Contexts" section provides an extensive sampling of materials concerning Bronte's experiences as a student, governess, and teacher, experiences that influenced her portrayal of Jane Eyre at Lowood school and as the governess of Thornfield Hall. New to the Third Edition are illustrations from and commentary upon Bronte's use of Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds. Numerous letters document Jane Eyre's publication and reception history, including Bront's retorts to negative reviews by Elizabeth ligby and The Christian Remembrancer. Expanded excerpts from ElizabethGaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bront provide a fellow novelist'scomments upon Bronte as a woman author and help to explainBronte's reactions to her critics.

"Criticism" retains major feminist readings by Adrienne Rich and Sandra M. Gilbert and newly includes essays by Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.ABOUT 'FilE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes at] authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a x'ide range of interpretations from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory--as well as a bibliography and, in mosl cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.

Preface to the Third Norton Critical Edition

The Text of Jane Eyre

 Author's Preface

 Note to the Third Edition

 Jame Eyre

Contexts

 GIIARLOTTE BRONE AS STUDENT, GOVERNESS,

 AND TEACHER

 School Register: Clergy Daughters' School

 Report of the Cowan Bridge School for Clergymen's

 Daughters

 From The Children's Friend

 Charlotte Bront at Roe Head

 Christine Alexander Introduction to Bront's

 Juvenilia

 "Well, here I am at Roe Head"

 "Now as I have a little bit of time"

 "All this day I have been in a dream"

 "I'm just going to write because I cannot help it"

 "My compliments to the weather"

 "About a week since I got a letter from Branwell"

 Retrospection

 From "Henry Hastings"

 Farewell to Angria

 Charlotte's and Jane's Illustrated Book

 To W. S. Williams, March 11, 1848

 Vignettes from Bewick

 Jane W. Stedman Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's

 "British Birds"

 Charlotte Bront as Governess

 To Emily J. BrontG June 8, 1839

 To Ellen Nugsey, June 30, 1839

 To W. S. Williams, May 12, 1848

 "The Governess-Grinders"

 CHARTOTFE BRONTE: AND HER PUBLISHERS, REVIEWERS, AND

 FIRST BIOGRAPHER

 To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 7, 1847

 To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 24, 1847

 To Smith, Elder, & Co., September 12, 1847

 To W. S. Williams, October 28, 1847

 To W. S. Williams, January 28, 1848

 To G. H. Lewes, November 6, 1847

 G. H. Lewes, Fraser's Magazine, December 1847

 To W. S. Williams, December 11, 1847

 To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848

 To W. S. Williams, Early September 1848

 The Christian Remembrancer and The Quarterly

 From The Christian Remembrancer, January 1848

 Elizabetb Rigby, The Quarterly Review, December 1848

 To W. S. Williams, January 2, 1849

 To W. S. Williams, February 10[?], 1849

 To W. S. Williams, August 16, 1849

 From "A Word to The Quarterly"

 Elizabeth Gaskell

 Charlotte Bront and the Critics

 Charlotte Bront: Author and Woman

 First Impressions of Charlotte Bront

 Charlotte Bront at Home

 Charlotte Bront's Working Habits

Criticism

 Adrienne Rich- Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a

 Motherless Woman

 Sandra M. Gilbert A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain

 Jane's Progress

 Jerome Beaty St. John's Way and the Wayward Reader

 Lisa Sternlieb Jane Eyre: "Hazarding Confidences"

 Jeffrey Sconce. The Cinematic Reconstitution of

 lane Eyre]

 Donna Marie Nudd, The Pleasure of Intertextuality:

 Reading Jane Eyre Television and Film Adaptations

Charlotte Bront: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography