Jane Eyre: Harbinger [New York] (Jan 1848)

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Dana, Charles A. Rev. of Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontė. Harbinger [New York] 6.12 (22 Jan. 1848): 95.

Jane Eyre; An Autobiography. Edited by CURRER BELL. New York; Harper & Brothers. 1848. pp. 174.

This is a new novel in another sense than that of being merely the latest issue from the press. Though written as we judge by a new hand, and not faultless in the structure of its plot, it has a freshness and originality, a manly vigor of style, a penetration into the secrets of human character and a vividness in the deliniation [sic] of the same together with a dramatic power and directness in the action of its story which fully justify the high and unanimous praise it has received from the British press. Such books preserve romance writing in its legitimate dignity as an art and have a share in the progress of society. In the author of "Jane Eyre," we welcome a man destined to take a decided and important position in English literature.

 

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