Which was the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë?
Charlotte Brontë's first manuscript, "The Professor", did not immediately secure a publisher, although she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co. of Cornhill, who expressed an interest in any longer works she might wish to send. Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847. Six weeks later "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" was published. There followed "Shirley", published in 1849, and "Villette," published in 1853. "The Professor", the first novel Charlotte had written, was published posthumously in 1857.
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James D.
Just more deciet by this person. An embarrassment to all other authors.
Don Storjord
Misleading question
Jean-Pierre Vincent
A writer all her life, Brontë published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847
Johnny Rock
Trick question (kind of) but I got it.
Joseph A. Robitaille
Itt is hard at times to know what novels and how the question is written. Jane eyre was her first book.
John Manley
getting fed up of "trick" questions with questionanle answers
Chandran David
My favourite author!
Fred Zeb Fudpucker
Trickster; hope you are happy!
Julie Allen
Rosalind S Feldman, Jane Eyre was only a manuscript till it was published. Does this mean it wasn't a novel either?
Hernando Villegas
WOW. Another incorrect answer!!!!
Jhan Schmitz
Very bad question - incorrect !!!
Marian Spitzig
A manuscript is not a novel. Does this question mean that manuscript in my computer is my first novel?? I think not.
Ian Swindale
I agree with many of the puzzlers that it must be Jane Eyre
TSH
I knew the manuscript, The Professor, was never published. I did not consider an unpublished work a novel. Therefore, I chose Jane Eyre because the question uses the word novel, not manuscript. I apparently over-thought this one.
David Holmes
frankjardin, Google is not "as seeing and/or all knowing" and (shock horror) has been known to be wrong