Research Pathfinder for Jane Eyre
Books (Those owned by WCS will be on reserve in the library for in-library use only)
Note: Books followed by a call number in parentheses are part of the Webster Christian School Library collection.
Berg, Maggie. Jane Eyre: Portrait of a Life. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987. (823.8 BER)
Bloom, Harold, ed. The Bronte Sisters. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House, 2002. (823 BRO)
Bloom, Harold, ed. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Updated ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007. (823.8 BRO)
Bloom, Harold, ed. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007. (823.8 BRO)
Bloom, Harold. Novels and Novelists. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005. (REF 809.3 BLO)
Dunn, Richard J., ed. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre: an Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. 3rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2001. (823.8 BRO)
Gleadle, Kathryn. British Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Print. Social History in Perspective. (305.4 GLE)
Karson, Jill, ed. Readings on Jane Eyre. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2000.
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought). San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994. (J 809 KRU)
Kunitz, Stanley J., ed. British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1936. (REF 920 KUN)
Martin, Christopher. The Brontes. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Enterprises, 1989. (823 MAR)
Newman, Beth, ed. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996.(823.8 BRO)
Phegley, Jennifer. Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2012. Print. Victorian Life and Times. (306.73 PHE)
Teachman, Debra. Understanding Jane Eyre: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. (823.8 BRO)
Web Sites
The Bronte Sisters Web
www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte.html
Bronte Country
www.bronte-country.com/brontes.html
The Gaskell Web
www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Gaskell.html
The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org
Bronte Parsonage Museum
www.bronte.org.uk
Online Literature Library—Charlotte Bronte—Jane Eyre. E-text. http://www.literature.org/authors/bronte-charlotte/jane-eyre/
Primary Sources
Berg, Maggie. Jane Eyre: Portrait of a Life. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987.
The bibliography at the back of this book lists some primary sources.
Teachman, Debra. Understanding Jane Eyre: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001. (823.8 BRO)
Includes primary sources such as letters, firsthand accounts, magazine articles, and a personal biography written by someone who knew Charlotte Bronte.
Electronic Databases
InfoTrac Gale Databases – Twayne Author Series – Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
- Ask at the library for the username and password or check your "book mark" that lists online databases that you can use from home or at WCS.
- After you enter the username and password, you will be taken to a page that lists a lot of individual databases.
- Scroll down to find the database "Twayne's Authors Online" and click on the link.
- Enter Jane Eyre in the search window.
Facts on File Online Databases (http://www.fofweb.com)
- Ask at the library for the username and password or check your "book mark" that lists online databases that you can use from home or at WCS.
- After you enter the username and password, you will be taken to a page that lists Writer's Reference Center and Bloom's Literary Reference Online.
- Click on Bloom's Literary Reference Online.
- Enter Jane Eyre in the search window.
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