The Secret History of Jane Eyre

In this perceptive book, John Pfordresher shares the enthralling story of how Charlotte Bront wrote her masterpiece and why she tried so vehemently to disown it. What few people knew thenand even fewer know todaywas that as she tended her invalid father and held the family together, Bront was re-imagining her experiences as a governess, her fears for her dissolute brother and her devastating passion for a married man into an immersive, brilliant novel. By aligning the details of Bronts life with the timeless characters and plot of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literatures most beloved heroines and its vulnerable and deeply human creator and why Bront didnt want those parallels exposed.