Industrial Age · Europe · Culture

1847

Jane Eyre Published

1847

The small Yorkshire village of Haworth produced, in a short burst that winter, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's Agnes Grey - three sisters writing under male pseudonyms. Jane Eyre was the sensation: a governess who insists on being treated as a soul. English fiction had just acquired a new kind of heroine.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1846: Neptune Discovered
After: February 21, 1848: Communist Manifesto Published

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1840: Napoleon's Return From St. Helena
After: 1850: Great Exhibition Planned

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Jane Eyre