First edition of one of the major novels of the nineteenth century, Charlotte Brontë’s first published novel and the first published novel by any of the Brontë sisters. Published at 31s. 6d. on 19 October 1847, in an edition of 500 copies, Jane Eyre followed the unsuccessful publication of Poems by the three sisters in May 1846, and the rejection of Charlotte’s first novel The Professor.
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