I have spent years of my life reading and loving Charlotte Brontë’s novel “Jane Eyre.” But in the last few years I have realized something: The main character of this novel isn’t Jane, but Bertha; the ...
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece. By John Pfordresher. W.W. Norton; 254 pages; $26.95; £20. CRITICS relish a bit of detective work. Four hundred years after ...