Contexts includes eighteen new selections and two new subsections: Charlotte and Jane's Illustrated Book which includes a letter from Bronte to her publisher W. S. Williams; Vignettes from Bewick ; and Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's British Birds' and Charlotte Bronte as Governess, which includes letters to Emily Bronte, Ellen Nussey, W. S. Williams, and The Governess-Grinders. Criticism collects six major essays on Jane Eyre, four of them new to the Third Edition. Contributors include Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert, Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd. A new Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.