 Meyer has said that there are similarities between Bella and the title character of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", a novel which she has cited as an influence on the "Twilight" series.Bella, who first appears in "Twilight", is a young 17-year-old human girl, who moves from her mother's home in Phoenix, Arizona, to live with her father, Charlie Swan, a police chief, in her birthplace of Forks, Washington.There, she is enrolled at Forks High School, where she becomes intrigued by a young 17-year-old vampire student, Edward Cullen and his family.