![]() ![]() Right? The answer to that question is up for debate. But Jane Eyre’s diminutive author was no romantic heroine, and real life is not a romance. And Charlotte was charmed by his good looks and his bright, open personality. If he did not love her already, he could learn: They would soon strike up a lively and close correspondence that lasted years. Passionate, deeply intelligent, outspoken, and charmingly unaffected-Charlotte Brontë was an arresting, complex woman. If life were like literature, Smith would have fallen in love with her then and there. Readers have always picked up on the tension between the book’s revolutionary subtexts and its uneasy relationship with love. ![]()
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