Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

When Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was commissioned to illustrate Jane Eyre for Random House in 1943, he had never read the novel or been to Britain. Working from New York during World War II, he approached Charlotte Brontë’s story through Jane’s own sharp and honest perspective. Eichenberg, a German-born artist who […]

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