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VN & Charlotte Bronte's _Jane Eyre_
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Quite by chance I notice that the 1904 Catalogue of Nabokov's father's
library contains the following:
532. Bell, _Jane Eyre_. Leipzig, 1880, Vol. 1-2.
Bell, of course, is Currer Bell, the pen name under which Charlotte
published _Jane_. It is probably a Tauchnitz edition, as were many of the
English novels in the family library.
This does not prove that Nabokov knew the book, but it is certainly
possible.
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
library contains the following:
532. Bell, _Jane Eyre_. Leipzig, 1880, Vol. 1-2.
Bell, of course, is Currer Bell, the pen name under which Charlotte
published _Jane_. It is probably a Tauchnitz edition, as were many of the
English novels in the family library.
This does not prove that Nabokov knew the book, but it is certainly
possible.
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618