Introduction
1. Literary Analysis: Jane Eyre
2. Education for Victorian Girls
FROM:
Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, The Economy of Charity; or,
an Address to Ladies; Adapted to the Present State
of Charitable Institutions in England (1801)
Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe,
as Told by Herself (1904)
Hannah Lynch, Autobiography of a Child (1899)
Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
"An Enquiry into the State of Girls’ Fashionable
Schools" (Fraser’s Magazine, 1845)
Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of
Female Education (1799)
Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of the
Female Sex (1797)
William Duff, Letters on the Intellectual and Moral
Character of Women (1807)
3. The Governess in Nineteenth-Century England
FROM:
M. Mostyn Bird, Woman at Work: A Study of the Different
Ways of Earning a Living Open to Women (1911)
Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of
Daughters, with Reflections on Female Conduct in
the More Important Duties of Life (1787)
Advice to Governesses (1827)
Sarah Lewis, "On the Social Position of Governesses"
(Fraser’s Magazine, 1848)
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey (1847)
Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
4. Madness and Victorian Women: Diagnosis and Treatment
FROM:
Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind (1873)
Henry Maudsley, Responsibility in Mental Disease (1874)
Alexander Morison, Outlines of Mental Diseases (1824)
William Willis Moseley, Eleven Chapters on Nervous
and Mental Complaints (1838)
Andrew Wynter,
George C. Brodrick, English Land and English
Landlords (1881)
Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws
of England (1765)
William Alexander, The History of Women from the
Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time (1779)
Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland,
The History of English Law Before the Time of
Edward I (1898)
6. Jane Eyre: Issues in the Twenty-first Century
Index
Immediately popular when published over a century and a half ago, Jane Eyre has contnnuea to find appreciative audiences. This student casebook offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of Charlotte Brontes landmark novel. While it gives insightful literary analysis, it also contextualizes the novel in terms of the historical social issues it confronts. Expert commentary is supported with primary documents from legal and medical treatises, magazine articles, letters, essays and firsthand accounts. A personal biography written by Elizabeth Gaskell, an acquaintance of Bronte, offers a detailed account of the Cowan Bridge School. which Charlotte attended and fictionalized in Jane Eyre.
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