Why did Charlotte Bront? go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Bront?'s compulsion to write her masterpiece and why she then turned around and vehemently disavowed it. Few people know how quickly Bront? composed Jane Eyre. Nor do...