The Discovering Literature website is an important cultural resource that can be enjoyed by all ages
Charlotte Bronte is one of the writers featured on the Discovering Literature website. Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty Images
If it hadn't been for a well-timed family visit to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, I doubt I would've finished Jane Eyre before my GCSE English literature exam. Simpering St John bored me, and I already knew the ending, having watched the film in class. Going to Haworth and seeing Charlotte Brontë's childhood writings, her letters and drawings, and the journal she kept as a young teacher, renewed my interest. Understanding the author and her times turned the novel from dusty set-text into something vital and affecting.
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