Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre. ([Source][1].)
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Brontë
Her sisters, Anne and Emily, first published their works as Acton and Ellis Bell.
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffer...