Royce Quick Reader cover

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Chicago: Royce Publishers, 1944.

Heavily influenced by movies of Jane Eyre, the 1944 Royce Quick Reader edition with its wonderful tromp l’oeil cover models its Jane after Virginia Bruce and Joan Fontaine. Published during World War II, the book was small enough to mail to soldiers fighting overseas who could carry it in their pockets.

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