# Note to the Third Edition explained — Jane Eyre

> Chapter companion for Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

## What happens

Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë) addresses the public in a brief note to the third edition of Jane Eyre, clarifying that she is the author of only this one novel and correcting any mistaken attributions of other works to her.

## Key lines

> I avail myself of the opportunity which a third edition of Jane Eyre affords me, of again addressing a word to the Public, to explain that my claim to the title of novelist rests on this one work alone.

I use the chance provided by this third edition to tell the public that I am only the author of this single novel.

_Currer Bell asserts sole authorship of Jane Eyre._

> If, therefore, the authorship of other works of fiction has been attributed to me, an honour is awarded where it is not merited; and consequently, denied where it is justly due.

If people have credited me with writing other novels, that praise is given wrongly and withheld from the true authors.

_Currer Bell corrects misattributions of other novels to her._

## Links

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