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Gone with the Wind
"Gone with the Wind," published by Margaret Mitchell in 1936, follows Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, through the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, centered on her tumultuous relationship with the roguish Rhett Butler. The novel was Mitchell's only published book during her lifetime, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937, becoming one of the best-selling novels of all time and one of the most commercially successful books in American publishing history. The novel's 1939 film adaptation became one of the highest-grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation, further cementing the story's place in American popular culture, though both the book and film have also drawn significant and ongoing criticism for their romanticized depiction of the antebellum South and slavery. Gone with the Wind's combination of Mitchell's sole Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and its status as one of the best-selling books in American history has made it one of the most commercially significant, if historically contested, romance novels ever published.
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Jane Eyre
"Jane Eyre," published by Charlotte Brontë in 1847 under the pen name Currer Bell, follows an orphaned governess who falls in love with her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester, while navigating class barriers and a dark secret hidden in his household. The novel was genuinely innovative for its era in giving readers direct access to its plain, morally independent heroine's inner voice and psychological development, a first-person narrative approach that helped shape the development of the modern psychological novel. Brontë wrote under a male pen name specifically because Victorian publishing was heavily biased against women writers, and the novel's frank exploration of a woman's desire for equality and self-respect in both love and society was considered notably bold and even controversial upon its release. Jane Eyre's combination of Brontë's pioneering first-person psychological narration and its bold, era-defying portrayal of female independence has made it one of the most enduringly influential romance novels in English literature.
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