English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who wrote novels. Her 简·爱 (Jane Eyre), the story of an orphan who becomes a governess, is one of the most-read foreign novels in China.
Read character by character, 简·爱, the Chinese Jane Eyre, also says 'simple love'. Her sisters are Emily, 艾米莉, author of 呼啸山庄 (Wuthering Heights), and Anne, 安妮; the family name is usually spelled 勃朗特.