Charlotte Brontë
421 cryptograms in the catalog, every one taken from Charlotte Brontë’s own writing rather than from a quotation list.
Almost entirely Jane Eyre, which is a novel written in the first person by a narrator who argues with the reader. That is unusually good raw material for a cryptogram: the sentences were built to be spoken directly, so they still sound like speech with the book taken away.
Where they come from
- Jane Eyre: An Autobiography417
- Jane Eyre3
420 of these name the book they came from. The remaining 1 are remarks, letters and speeches, which carry no work.
How hard they are
Graded by the model in our guide to solving cryptograms: 136 easy, 177 medium and 108 hard. Most of Charlotte Brontë’s puzzles land in the medium tier.
They average 74.6 letters over 19.4 distinct ones, with 4 letters appearing exactly once, which are the letters a frequency count cannot help you with. 6.9% carry an apostrophe, which hands over a letter outright.
Collections
- The Originals1,247
- Jane Eyre417