![]() ![]() Provoked by a story that seemed to invite unprecedented emotional involvement, he had been discovered, by his astonished servant, in tears. The novel was Jane Eyre, and Thackeray had found himself so caught up in the story of the poor governess who eventually marries her employer that he'd nearly missed a deadline. O n October 23 1847, the novelist William Thackeray wrote a rather breathless note to the publisher William Smith Williams, who had sent him an advance copy of a new book by an unknown author. ![]()
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