II.About the Author －Charlotte Bronte

2.1The Biography of Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was one of the great female novelists in the 19th century English literature. He is famous for her great novel Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte was born on 21 April 1816 in the village of Thornton, West Reading, Yorkshire. It was a time when women and poor were oppressed and unequally treated. She was the third girl of the family. Her father was a priest minister. Her mother died in 1821, and the girls were sent to Cowan Bridge, a boarding school for priest minister’s daughters. After the two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died of tuberculosis, Charlotte and Emily were brought home. Several years later, Charlotte becomes a writer. Charlotte’s works were all about the struggle of an inpidual consciousness toward self-realization about some lonely and neglected young women with a longing for love. Although Charlotte died too early, she made a great contribution to the literary world and had an effect on the later literature.
2.2The Background of Writing Jane Eyre
One day in 1846, there was a discussion relating to the question of novel creation in a common manse of Thornton, West Riding, Yorkshire, which had a far-reaching influence on the whole literary history. Charlotte Bronte and her two sisters (Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte) had differences in opinion. The two sisters both insisted that only the heroine is beautiful and wealthy that the readers would be interested in the novel and like it; however, Charlotte set her face against their opinion. She said: “I will prove that you are wrong; I will create a heroine as little as me, as ungainly as me, but as interested as any heroine of you.” And then, “Jane Eyre” came into the world. With her talented exquisite style of writing, unique and sensitive experience, Charlotte Bronte shaped an unprecedented heroine—little, poor and unattractive, but possessing of fire-like passion and indocile, treasonous personality. 《简∙爱》中的火意象研究(2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_18741.html