Win a copy of Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre. A reader's guide to essential criticism

*** THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED***

Palgrave MacMillan have generously provided us with an extra copy of Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre. A reader's guide to essential criticism by Sara Lodge to give away to one of our readers.

To enter you only have to answer the following question:

Who was the author of this (in)famous review of Jane Eyre?

Altogether the autobiography of Jane Eyre is pre-eminently an anti-Christian composition. There is throughout it a murmuring against the comforts of the rich and against the privations of the poor, which, as far as each individual is concerned, is a murmuring against God's appointment--there is a proud and perpetual assertion of the rights of man, for which we find no authority either in God's word or in God's providence--there is that pervading tone of ungodly discontent which is at once the most prominent and the most subtle evil which the law and the pulpit, which all civilized society in fact, has at the present day to contend with. We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre. (December 1848)

The answer must be sent to our e-mail address: bronteblog (AT) gmail (DOT) com (read that aloud if that doesn't look like an e-mail address to you). Answers will be accepted until 1 march (12 am CET). The winner will be notified by e-mail on the ensuing days. We will accept ONE ANSWER ONLY per participant.

Good luck everyone!

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