num_pages: 489
description: Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the most widely read of English novels.Transmuted by the rare Brontë imagination, the romance of Jane and Rochester takes on a strange and unforgettable atmosphere that lifts it above the level of mere melodrama. But Charlotte Brontë intended more. She portrayed the refusal of a spirited and intelligent woman to accept her appointed place in society with unusual frankness and with a passionate sense of the dignity and needs of her sex.Q. D. Leavis's introduction brings out the revolutionary qualities of the book and its author's creation of something that would 'be true to the experience of the who woman and...convey a sense of life's springs and undercurrents'.
language: English
title: Jane Eyre
titlecomplete: Jane Eyre
characters: Bertha Mason, Adèle Varens, Richard Mason, Robert Brocklehurst, Grace Poole, Georgiana Reed, Mary Rivers, Edward Rochester, Sarah Reed, Rosamond Oliver, Alice Fairfax, St. John Rivers, Maria Temple, Jane Eyre, Helen Burns, Diana Rivers, Bessie Lee, Eliza Reed, Blanche Ingram
genres: Fiction, Historical, Gothic, School, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 2024589
places: England, Thornfield Hall, United Kingdom
publisher: Penguin Books