Jane Eyre was written by a sister.
Charlotte Brontë ( [ ˈbrɒnti ] , commonly [ ˈbrɒnteɪ ] 21 April 1816 -- 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet , the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature . Jane Eyre [ ˈɛər ] ( originally published as Jane Eyre : An Autobiography ) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë .