Jane Eyre National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015) Orphan of Asia begins during

Orphan of Asia begins during Taiming's childhood in Taiwan

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Drawing upon numerous stays in Raffles Hotel over thirty-five years and the fast-ascending city around it

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Jane Eyre National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015) Orphan of Asia begins duringJane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Bront, a young woman from a