More books... like Jane Eyre...???

Question

i have all the books of Jane Austen, and only this one from Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)... I was wondering if any one
knows of more books/Authors of the same century and about the
books they wrote with approx. the same story line....

Answer 1

Well, you could consider Charlotte Bronte's other novels, and the novels by her sisters Emily and Anne. None of them have exactly the same storyline, but they all explore a woman coming to understand herself and her relationship with a headstrong man.

I'm guessing by "approx the same story line," you mean as far as the romance is concerned (I can't see many other connections between Jane Austen's novels and Jane Eyre). The answer is that there are hundreds, but few have retained the popularity and literary acclaim to still be around today.

Women contemporaries (roughly) of the Brontes whose novels are still in print include: Elizabeth Gaskell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in English, and Georges Sand and Colette in French. All of these writers are very interested in women's intellectual and emotional development, as well as in the relationships between women and men.

The nineteenth century is considered the great era of the novel, and there are many wonderful writers to choose from. If you liked Jane Eyre, you may also like Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, or Nana by Emile Zola. If it was the description of Jane's historical circumstances, you could try the novels of Charles Dickens. Or if it's the sense of Gothic horror, the slightly earlier work of Anne Radcliffe (which Jane Austen refers to in Northanger Abbey) is definitely worth a glance. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is, of course, a famous work from the era, and does have many themes in common with Jane Eyre (the outsider, the Gothic, education, love).

Alternately, you could look at modern examples and writers who deliberately refer to or engage the works of the Brontes and Austen. Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre, about the first Mrs. Rochester. Maryse Conde's Windward Heights is a rewriting of Wuthering Heights set in the Caribbean. Several contemporary novelists have written sequels to some of Jane Austen's books.

Answer 2

Books with the same plot you can find in Victoria Holt writings but she is our contemporary. As for Charlotte Bronte her other book are more serious than Jane Eyre. For example "The Professor" or "Villette". You can also read writings of her sisters:
Emily Bronte "Wuthering Heights"
Anne Bronte "Agnes Grey", "The Tennant of Wildfell Hall"