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Title: Historical and Social Context for Jane Eyre
Description: Suitable for AS and A2 English Literature, this contains critic quotations for Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.

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The Spectator (6th November 1847):
v ‘…very narrow representation of human life
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The reader
cannot see anything loveable in Mr Rochester, nor why he should
be so deeply in love with Jane Eyre…’
v ‘…Although minute and somewhat sordid, the first act of the fiction
is the most truthful; especially the scenes at the philanthropic
school
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Elizabeth Eastlake, The Quarterly Review, December 1848:
v ‘…we are painfully alive to the moral, religious, and literary
deficiencies of the picture and such passages of beauty and power
as have quoted cannot redeem it…’
v ‘…but is poured out rather in the heat and hurry of an instinct,
which flows ungovernably on to its object…’
v ‘Jane Eyre, in spite of some grand things about her, is totally
uncongenial to our feelings from beginning to end
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v ‘Fundamentally, her principal characters are all the same person;
and that is Charlotte Brontë
Title: Historical and Social Context for Jane Eyre
Description: Suitable for AS and A2 English Literature, this contains critic quotations for Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte.