What was the name of the publisher of the first edition of 'Jane Eyre'?

The publisher of the first edition of Jane Eyre was Smith, Elder & Co.

Charlotte Brontë’s novel was published in London on 19 October 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Smith, Elder & Co., based at 65 Cornhill, issued the first edition as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography in three volumes. The firm’s reader, William Smith Williams, encouraged Charlotte after the publisher rejected her earlier novel, The Professor, and the manuscript of Jane Eyre was accepted instead.

The book became a major success and established Charlotte’s literary reputation. Smith, Elder & Co. later published other Brontë-related works, including Charlotte’s Shirley and Villette. By contrast, Thomas Cautley Newby published Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey in 1847, which explains why Newby is a plausible but incorrect answer.

Another common confusion concerns overseas editions. The first American edition appeared in January 1848, published by Harper & Brothers in New York. That was not the first edition overall: the original British edition was the Smith, Elder & Co. publication. The firm was founded in 1816 and later became known for publishing major Victorian writers and reference works.