View from the Parsonage, Haworth

     View from the Parsonage, Haworth. Photograph: Denis Thorpe

Read more on: guardian.co.uk/charlotte-bronte-jane-eyre

Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre.