The popularity of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre in the United States from its 1848 publication up to 1860 was no doubt partly due to the novel's low price and widespread availability as a reprint. It was, in fact, reprinted in the United States by publishers in four different cities. Also, the novel's currency as a literary referent helped to keep it in the public consciousness and certainly improved its sales throughout the 1850s. As late as 1864, an article in Godey's Lady's Book described a new novel by Amelia Edwards as strongly reminiscent of Jane Eyre—this alone was said to have been sufficient to assure interest in the new book.
But the durability of the interest in Jane Eyre throughout the 1850s may have been partly due to the not uncommon conflation of Charlotte Brontë with the literary character Jane Eyre. This was common among readers eager to solve the mystery of the author's identity and gender, both of which had been hidden at first by the pen name “Currer Bell.” The conflation was encouraged not only by the book's being subtitled “an autobiography,” but also by the first-person narration. It was fueled by the ways in which Brontë's life and that of her character coincided: For example, both had attended a rather oppressive girls' boarding school and each had served briefly as a governess.
1.The primary purpose of the passage is to
A. help explain why something occurred
B. sketch out ways in which a fictional work reflected real events
C. provide corroborating evidence in support of an existing theory
D. refute a hypothesis that the passage claims has been widely held
E. evaluate competing reports of an event
2.Which of the following is NOT given in the passage as a reason for the popularity of Jane Eyre?
A. Price
B. Availability
C. Use as a literary referent
D. Value as a clue to an unsolved puzzle
E. Similarity to a novel by Amelia Edwards
3.It can most reasonably be inferred that the author of the passage believes that the subtitle of Jane Eyre was
A. added by the publishers because of the first-person narration
B. meant to be taken as referring to a factually accurate autobiography of the book’s author
C. most likely part of a deliberate ploy to increase sales
D. most likely accurate as to the details of Charlotte Brontë’s life as outlined in the life of the character Jane Eyre
E. one of the reasons readers believed that the life of the character Jane Eyre reflected the life of the book’s author
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