Emily and Anne did know, of course. They had known about Chalotte’s book for a long time. Jane Eyre was not the first book that Chalotte had sent to a publisher. Over a year ago she had written another book, The Professor, and sent it to one publisher after another .Each publisher had sent it back, in a packet addressed to Currer Bell. And then Chalotte had sent it, in the same old packet, to another publisher, and then another , and got it back again.