The novel was becoming the most important form of writing at the end of the eighteenth century. Before this time, the romantics had written mainly lyrical poetry, epics or drama in verse form. During the Victorian period, novelists wanted to describe and criticize English society. There were many talented female-writers. The three sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Ann Brontë – are as well-known for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. There were six siblings, five sisters and one brother in the Brontë family. They lived in a wild and remote part of England in Haworth Parsonage. Charlotte and her younger sister and brother were very close to each other and because they lived in a such remote area, they depended on each other for company and entertainment. They wrote about and lived in imaginary worlds and read all books they could. The countryside where they lived provided influence on their writing. When all three sisters became novelists, they wrote and published their work under assumed male names because it was very difficult for women to be taken seriously as writers in those times. Jane Eyre is based on Charlotte`s experiences and she writes with conviction of the right of an intelligent woman to a respectable independent occupation. Compared to the novels by Jane Austen, described the everyday life of rich and prosperous people whose main concern is a good marriage, Charlotte believed in a more equal status of men and women, both in work and in love and marriage. Jane Eyre is also quite different from the novels of her contemporary Charles Dickens, who criticizes social injustice and describes conditions under which the lower working classes lived and worked in towns and cities.
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