Q 01/05

Under what pen name was Jane Eyre first published in 1847?

A) Ellis Bell

B) Acton Bell

C) Currer Bell

D) George Eliot

Answer · why

C) Currer Bell

The three Brontë sisters kept their initials: Charlotte was Currer, Emily was Ellis and Anne was Acton.

Q 02/05

In which year was Jane Eyre first published?

A) 1857

B) 1867

C) 1877

D) 1847

Answer · why

D) 1847

Charlotte's first novel had been rejected; she sent this second manuscript to a different publisher in August 1847 and it appeared within two months.

Q 03/05

Which London firm published the first edition?

A) Smith, Elder & Co.

B) John Murray

C) Chapman & Hall

D) Richard Bentley

Answer · why

A) Smith, Elder & Co.

Charlotte later corresponded so warmly with the firm's young head that historians have wondered whether she was in love with him.

Q 04/05

What subtitle did the novel carry on its original title page?

A) An Autobiography

B) A Romance

C) A Governess's Tale

D) A Novel of the North

Answer · why

A) An Autobiography

The framing let readers take the first-person narrator at her word, and several early reviewers were sure the author was a man.

Q 05/05

How old is Jane when the novel opens?

A) 12

B) 10

C) 14

D) 16

Answer · why

B) 10

She is nineteen or twenty at the end of the main story, and about thirty when the final chapter is written, ten years into her marriage.