Emma Townsend, who sympathizes with the titular character in "Jane Eyre," finds herself lost in Jane's nineteenth-century world when a lightning storm catapults her right into Jane's body.
As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.
Presents the 1857 version of Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her fellow author Charlotte Bront?, and includes a critical introduction, and notes on subsequent variations.
Explores how the Bronte sisters became cultural symbols in the mid-eighteenth century, despite the fact that their novels scandalized English society and the truth about their identities shocked their readers.
Provides a critical biography of nineteenth-century British author Charlotte Bront?, and a chronological survey of all her works, including writings from her youth, emphasizing recent feminist, psychoanalytic, and historicist viewpoints.