Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.

Charlotte later used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.

Title page of the first edition of Jane Eyre

Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, was published.

Charlotte believed that art was most convincing when based on personal experience ; in Jane Eyre she transformed this experience into a novel with universal appeal.

However sales of Jane Eyre continued to be strong, and may have increased as a result of the novel developing a reputation as an ' improper ' book.

Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

Unlike Jane Eyre, which is written from the first-person perspective of the main character, Shirley is written in the third-person and lacks the emotional immediacy of Jane Eyre, and reviewers found it less shocking.

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

Villette marked Charlotte's return to writing from a first-person perspective ( that of Lucy Snowe ), a technique she used successfully in Jane Eyre.

Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school, and falling in love with Constantin Heger into Lucy falling in love with ' Paul Emanuel '.

* Jane Eyre, published 1847

* The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, submitted at first along with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, then separately, and rejected in either form by many publishing houses, published posthumously in 1857

* Jane Eyre overview

* Charlotte's Web: A Hypertext on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

After the death of their mother in 1821, when Emily was three years old, the older sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were sent to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge, where they encountered abuse and privations later described by Charlotte in Jane Eyre.

In Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, Mr Brocklehurst illustrates the dangers and hypocrisies that Charlotte Brontë perceived in the nineteenth-century Evangelical movement.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.

Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Cathy are both examples of female protagonists in such a role.

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

After a close reading of the Thesmophoriazousae, the historian Jane McIntosh Snyder observed that Agathon's costume was almost identical to that of the famous lyric poet Anacreon, as he is portrayed in early 5th-century vase-paintings.

Actress Jane Lapotaire portrayed her in the 13-part 1975 British series Edward the Seventh, the story of her brother-in-law.

* An Age of Kings ( 1960 ): Elizabeth is portrayed by Jane Wenham.

Similar to early graphical shells like Jane, the main interface is portrayed as the inside of a house, with different rooms to correspond to common real-world room styles such as kitchen and family room.

This relationship was portrayed in the film Julia, in which Hammett was portrayed by Jason Robards and Hellman by Jane Fonda, in Oscar-winning and-nominated performances respectively.

In a 1977 made-for-television movie, Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night, Dey portrayed a disturbed young mother with serious psychological problems, who begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.

" Elisabeth Sladen, who portrayed Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who, said " although we got a lot of flak from Mary Whitehouse, I think it was quite unwarranted.

Sir William Gull is portrayed by Ray McAnally in 1988 in a TV dramatisation of the murders, starring Michael Caine and Jane Seymour.

In the first three films, Mary Jane Watson was portrayed by Kirsten Dunst.

Patrick Jane, the main protagonist on the popular CBS series The Mentalist ( portrayed by Australian actor Simon Baker ) is almost always seen wearing a waistcoat.

In feature films, Dolph Lundgren portrayed the Punisher in 1989, as did Thomas Jane in 2004, and Ray Stevenson in 2008.

This version is portrayed as Mary Jane Watson's former boyfriend who has returned to reclaim Mary Jane's love, while retaining the origin as his comics counterpart.

Georgian society and its preoccupations were well portrayed in the novels of writers such as Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen, characterised by the architecture of Robert Adam, John Nash and James Wyatt and the emergence of the Gothic Revival style, which hearkened back to a supposed golden age of building design.

* In The Listening Sky, Dorothy Garlock portrayed Chivington as the father of Jane Love.

* Elizabeth Taylor portrayed Parsons in the TV film Malice in Wonderland ( 1985 ) opposite Jane Alexander as Hedda Hopper.

* Jane, a vampire from the Volturi clan in the Twilight series, portrayed by Dakota Fanning in the films

The following year, Davidtz portrayed a 19th-century woman of the world in Patricia Rozema's reworking of the Jane Austen comedy Mansfield Park, and played a dual role opposite Robin Williams in the futuristic fable Bicentennial Man.

In late 2006 and early 2007, she portrayed Jane in the television series Big Day.

In this radio drama, Susan is portrayed by Jane Asher.

In 2000 Esther Williams ' life and career was portrayed in the Swedish book Esther Williams — Skenbiografin ( i. E ~ " Esther Williams — The Fake Biography ") by Jane Magnusson ; in which the author shares with readers her own fascination for art swimming as a genre and, here, in particular, Williams as — to the author — both a bewildering and mesmerizing front figure and icon in this field.

Susannah Harker portrayed Elizabeth's beautiful older sister Jane, who desires to only see good in others.

In The Beverly Hillbillies, Nancy Kulp portrayed Bailey's ever loyal and " by the book " secretary, Miss Jane Hathaway.

On radio she was heard on such programs as The Halls of Ivy ( 1950-52 ) and on Father Knows Best during the early 1950s, where she portrayed Margaret Anderson ; the role was played on television by Jane Wyatt.

" Colosimo was portrayed by actor Raymond Serra ; Victoria Moresco by Linda Lutz ; Dale Winter by Jane Krakowski.