A beautiful gift, and perfect gems for bookworms.-- So Darling At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë--Virginia Woolf Jane Eyre's suspense-laden, melodramatic plot - featuring child cruelty and attempted bigamy, as well as the celebrated madwoman - explains much of its appeal. Jane Eyre is a book into which generations of readers have escaped. And yet it seems to provide something far more sustaining than the escapist fantasy. Her technical skill at writing the self in a first-person narrative is supreme, her words carefully chosen--Lucasta Miller, Guardian Charlotte Bronte was surely a marvellous woman. If it could be right to judge the work of a novelist from one small portion of one novel [ JE ], and to say of an author that he is to be accounted as strong as he shows himself to be in his strongest morsel of work, I should be inclined to put Miss Bronte very high indeed. I know of no interest more thrilling than that which she has been able to throw into the characters of Rochester and the governess, in the second volume of Jane Eyre --Anthony Trollope Great genius--William Makepeace Thackeray.