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Jane Eyre provoked immediate acclaim, as well as a great deal of curiosity regarding the identity and sex of ‘Currer Bell’. But two emerging issues proved of greater importance, as they set the agenda for much subsequent criticism: Jane Eyre’s ‘coarseness’, and the improbability of its plot.
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© 1988 Robert Miles
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Miles, R. (1988). Critical Reception. In: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09240-6_6
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