【简爱作者简介】简爱的作者夏洛蒂·勃朗特和简奥斯汀的英文简介和英文作品简介

【简爱作者简介】简爱的作者夏洛蒂·勃朗特和简奥斯汀的英文简介和英文作品简介

【答案】 Jane Eyre:The protagonist and title character,orphaned as a baby.She is a plain-featured and reserved but talented,empathetic,hard-working,honest (not to say blunt),and passionate girl.Skilled at studying,drawing,and teaching,she works as a governess at Thornfield Manor and falls in love with her wealthy employer,Edward Rochester.But her strong sense of conscience does not permit her to become his mistress,and she does not return to him until his insane wife is dead and she herself has come into an inheritance.
　　Mr.Reed:Jane's maternal uncle.He adopts Jane when her parents die.Before his own death,he makes his wife promise to care for Jane.
　　Mrs.Sarah Reed:Jane's aunt by marriage,who resides at Gateshead.Because her husband insists,Mrs.Reed adopts Jane.Jane,however,receives nothing but neglect and abuse at her hands.At the age of ten,Jane is sent away to school.Years later,Jane attempts to reconcile with her aunt,but Mrs.Reed spurns her,still resenting that her husband loved Jane more than his own children.Shortly afterward,Mrs.Reed dies of a stroke.
　　John Reed:Mrs.Reed's son,and Jane's cousin.He is Mrs.Reed's own darling, though he bullies Jane constantly,sometimes in his mother's presence.He goes to college,ruining himself and Gateshead through gambling.Word comes of his death; his decision to commit suicide.
　　Eliza Reed:Mrs.Reed's elder daughter,and Jane's cousin.Bitter because she is not as attractive as her sister,Georgiana Reed,she devotes herself self-righteously to Catholicism.After her mother's death,she enters a French convent,where she eventually becomes the Mother Superior.
　　Georgiana Reed:Mrs.Reed's younger daughter,and Jane's cousin.Though spiteful and insolent,she is indulged by everyone at Gateshead because of her beauty.In London,Lord Edwin Vere falls in love with her,but his relations are against their marriage.Lord Vere and Georgiana decide to elope,but Eliza finds them out.Georgiana returns to Gateshead,where she grows plump and vapid,spending most of her time talking of her love affair.After Mrs.Reed's death,she marries a wealthy but worn-out society man.
　　Bessie Lee:The nursemaid at Gateshead.She sometimes treats Jane kindly,telling her stories and singing her songs.Later she marries Robert Leaven.
　　Robert Leaven:The coachman at Gateshead,who sometimes gives Jane a ride on Georgiana's bay pony.He brings Jane to Lowood Institution.Months after she goes to Thornfield Hall,he brings her the news of John Reed's death,which had brought on Mrs.Reed's stroke.
　　Mr.Lloyd:A compassionate apothecary who recommends that Jane be sent to school.Later,he writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane's account of her childhood and thereby clearing Jane of Mrs.Reed's charge of lying.
　　Mr.Brocklehurst:The arrogant,hypocritical clergyman who serves as headmaster and treasurer of Lowood School.He embezzles the school's funds in order to pay for his family's opulent lifestyle.At the same time,he preaches a doctrine of Christian austerity and self-sacrifice to everyone in hearing.When his dishonesty is brought to light,he is made to share his office of inspector and treasurer with more kindly people,who greatly improve the school.
　　Miss Maria Temple:The kind,attractive young superintendent of Lowood School.She recognizes Mr.Brocklehurst for the cruel hypocrite he is,and treats Jane and Helen with respect and compassion.She helps clear Jane of Mrs.Reed's false accusation of deceit.
　　Miss Scatcherd:A sour and vicious teacher at Lowood.She behaves with particular cruelty toward Helen,using her as a scapegoat for anything and everything.
　　Helen Burns:An angelic fellow-student and best friend of Jane's at Lowood School.Several years older than the ten-year-old Jane,she stoically accepts all the cruelties of the teachers and the deficiencies of the school's room and board.She refuses to hate the tyrannical Mr.Brocklehurst or the vicious Miss Scatcherd,or to complain,believing in the New Testament teaching that one should love one's enemies and turn the other cheek.Jane reveres her for her profound Christianity,even though she herself believes that returning hate for hate is necessary to prevent evil from taking over.Helen,uncomplaining as ever,dies of consumption in Jane's arms.In the book it is noted that she was buried in an unmarked grave until some years later,when a marble gravestone with her name and the word 'Resurgam' inscribed on it appears.The possible inference is that this was provided by Jane.
　　Edward Fairfax Rochester:The owner of Thornfield Manor,and Jane's lover and eventual husband.He possesses a strong physique and great wealth,but his face is very plain and his moods prone to frequent change.Impetuous and sensual,he falls madly in love with Jane because her simplicity,bluntness,intellectual capacity and plainness contrast so much with those of the shallow society women to whom he is accustomed.But his unfortunate marriage to the maniacal Bertha Mason postpones his union with Jane,and he loses a hand and his eyesight while trying to rescue his mad wife after she sets a fire that burns down Thornfield.He is a Byronic hero.
　　Bertha Mason:The violently insane secret wife of Edward Rochester.From the West Indies and of Creole extraction,her family possesses a strong strain of madness,of which Rochester did not know until,lured by her wealth and beauty,he had married her.Her insanity manifests itself in a few years,and Rochester resorts to imprisoning her in the attic of Thornfield Manor.But she escapes four times during the novel and wreaks havoc in the house,the fourth time actually burning it down and taking her own life in the process.
　　Ad猫le Varens:A naive,vivacious and rather spoiled French child to whom Jane is governess at Thornfield.She is Rochester's ward because her mother,Celine Varens,an opportunistic French opera dancer and singer,was Rochester's mistress.Rochester does not believe himself to be Ad猫le's father.Although not particularly fond of her,he nonetheless extends the little girl the best of care.In time,she grows up to be a very pleasant and well-mannered young woman.
　　Mrs.Alice Fairfax:An elderly widow and housekeeper of Thornfield Manor.She treats Jane kindly and respectfully,but disapproves of her engagement to Mr Rochester.She believes that marriages should be limited to one's own class.
　　Blanche Ingram:A beautiful but very shallow socialite whom Mr.Rochester appears to court in order to make Jane jealous.Blanche despises the rather dowdy protagonist because she is a governess.Later Jane discovers Blanche Ingram did not love Mr.Rochester but rather his fortune.
　　Richard Mason:A strangely blank-eyed but handsome Englishman from the West Indies,he stops Jane and Rochester's wedding with the proclamation that Rochester is still married to Bertha Mason,his sister.
　　St.John Eyre Rivers:A clergyman who is Jane Eyre's cousin on her father's side.He is a devout,almost fanatical Christian of Calvinistic leanings.He is charitable,honest,patient,forgiving,scrupulous,austere and deeply moral; with these qualities alone,he would have made a saint.But he is also proud,cold,exacting,controlling and unwilling to listen to dissenting opinions.He was in love with Rosamond Oliver,but did not propose to her because he felt that she would not make a suitable wife.Jane venerates him and likes him,regarding him as a brother,but she refuses to marry him because he doesn't love her and is incapable of real kindness.
　　Diana and Mary Rivers:St.John's sisters and Jane's cousins,they are kind and intellectual young women who contrive to lead an independent life while retaining their intelligence,purity and sense of meaning in life.Diana warns Jane against marrying her icy brother.
　　Grace Poole:Bertha Mason's keeper,a frumpish woman verging on middle age.She drinks gin immoderately,occasionally giving her maniacal charge a chance to escape.Rochester and Mrs.Fairfax attribute all of Bertha's misdeeds to her.
　　Rosamond Oliver:The rather shallow and coquettish,but beautiful and good-natured daughter of Morton's richest man.She donates the funds to launch the village school because she is in love with St.John.However,as St.John refuses to let himself love her,she in time becomes engaged to the wealthy Mr.Granby.
　　John Eyre:Jane's paternal uncle,who leaves her his vast fortune of 20,000 pounds.He never appears as a character.Has distant relations with St.John.Leaves him and his sisters 31 pounds and 10 shillings (i.e.30 guineas) as a result.Jane divides her 20,000 pounds amongst the four of them (St.John,Mary,Diana and herself) leaving each with 5,000 pounds.

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