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The poetry of Jane Eyre

Mark Payton argues that Charlotte Brontë uses poetic descriptions to craft a novel of lasting power

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The limitations of Charlotte Brontë have attracted critical comment. For example, Virginia Woolf recognises the narrowness of her life experience: ‘In that parsonage, and on those moors, unhappy and lonely, in her poverty and her exaltation, she remains for ever’ (The Common Reader). She goes on to speculate that ‘these circumstances, as they affected her character, may have left their traces on her work’.

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