About this ebook
In ‘Grace Poole Her Testimony’, Grace Poole defends Bertha Mason and calls the general opinion of Jane Eyre into question.
Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë’s game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.
About the author
Helen Dunmore was the first winner of the Orange Prize
and is also an acclaimed children’s author and poet. Her
novel, The Lie, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for
Historical Fiction and the 2015 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Helen
Dunmore’s fiction and poetry is translated into more than
thirty languages and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Literature. Her latest novel is Exposure, published by
Random House UK and Grove. She loves the many layers
of Jane Eyre’s character: her fiery intelligence, her battling
spirit as she takes on a world which tries to crush her, her
wit and audacity. But Jane Eyre is stealthy too, and that is
what drives Helen’s story.
