Famous Publications

• Jane Eyre, published in 1847
• Shirley, published in 1849
• Villette, published in 1853
• The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, was first submitted together with Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë. Subsequently The Professor was resubmitted separately, and rejected by many publishing houses. It was published posthumously in 1857
• Emma, unfinished; Charlotte Brontë wrote only 20 pages of the manuscript, published posthumously in 1860. In recent decades at least two continuations of this fragment have appeared:
  • Emma, by "Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady", published 1980; although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge, the actual author was Constance Savery.
  • Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan, published 2003