Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde said Jasper Fforde wrote 'The Eyre Affair' (one of my favorite books, but be warned -- 'quirky' is an understatement) as a stand-alone, but then Jasper Fforde's publisher wanted a stand to be the first in a series.

Jasper Fforde's first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next series novels, which includes Lost in a Good Book,

The Eyre Affair was Jasper Fforde's first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next series novels, which includes Lost in a Good Book,

Jasper Fforde's first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next novels, which includes Lost in a Good Book,

The Eyre Affair was Jasper Fforde's first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next novels, which includes Lost in a Good Book,

Charlotte Brontë

The secret history of Jane Eyre: how Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre's masterpiece.

written by English author Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre is a novel written by English author Charlotte Bronte.

Jasper Frforde

The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Frforde, draws on a mix of genres, such as humour thriller, sci-fi, detective and fantasy.

a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and Jane Eyre's singular fictional universe

Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and Jane Eyre's singular fictional universe.

Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford

In this case the putative author is Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford.

Ron Goulart

The Eyre Affair Most of Ron Goulart's work Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's Red Dwarf

as Lewis Carroll writing a detective story

The Eyre Affair has been described as Lewis Carroll writing a detective story; you create an entire world recognisable yet distinctly different from our everyday reality.

Charlotte Bront

A poor governess, Jane Eyre, captures the heart of English writer Charlotte Bront's enigmatic employer, Edward Rochester.

poet Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre is an autobiography novel written by English novelist and poet Charlotte Bronte.

by a young Charlotte Bronte

The story of Jane Eyre was written by a young Charlotte Bronte in 1847 and, in retrospect, is considered way ahead of retrospect's time.

a place where hardcore literature fans change their name to John Milton, roving gangs of surrealists rumble with French impressionists, and “Baconians” go door-to-door like Jehovah Witnesses’ to convince people that Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare’s plays

The Eyre Affair , England in the 1980s is a place where hardcore literature fans change their name to John Milton, roving gangs of surrealists rumble with French impressionists, and “Baconians” go door-to-door like Jehovah Witnesses’ to convince people that Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare’s plays.

Edward de Vere

The idea is that the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans and Jamie Campbell Bower), was the true author, keeping Jamie Campbell Bower's identity secret to protect Jamie Campbell Bower's good standing as an aristocrat and to conceal the political motivations behind the plays.

a literary detective thriller with romantic overtones, mad inventor uncles, aunts trapped in Wordsworth poems, global multinationals, scheming evildoers, an excursion inside the novel of Jane Eyre, dodos, knight-errant-time-travelling fathers and the answer to the eternal question: 'Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays

The Eyre Affair is a literary detective thriller with romantic overtones, mad inventor uncles, aunts trapped in Wordsworth poems, global multinationals, scheming evildoers, an excursion inside the novel of Jane Eyre, dodos, knight-errant-time-travelling fathers and the answer to the eternal question: 'Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays?''

Alexander Pope and Voltaire

Alexander Pope and Voltaire, among others wrote about the affair.

in the year 2001

Eyre Affair was published in the year 2001 by Hodder and Stoughton.

& W Boone

Eyre were published in two volumes by T & W Boone in 1845 under the title Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, and Overland from Adelaide to King George’s Sound, in the years 1840-1.

the daughter of a clergyman in the little village of Haworth

At length the mystery was cleared, and the curious world knew that the author of Jane Eyre was the daughter of a clergyman in the little village of Haworth, and that the literary sensation of the day found its source in a nervous, shrinking, awkward, plain, delicate young creature, thirty-one years of age, whose life, with the exception of two years, had been spent on the bleak and dreary moorland of Yorkshire, and for the most part in the narrow confines of a grim gray stone parsonage.