num_pages: 544
description: 'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.' Sharpe's London Magazine (June 1855) Jane Eyre is an orphan grown up under the harsh regime first of her aunt and then as a pupil at Lowood Institution. She leaves to become a governess to the daughter of the mysterious Mr Rochester; gradually their relationship deepens, but Jane's passionate nature has yet to endure its deepest blows. In this new edition Sally Shuttleworth explores the power of a narrative that questions the rights of women, the nature of servitude and madness, martyrdom and rebellion in a story whose emotional charge is a strong today as it was more than 150 years ago.
language: English
title: Jane Eyre
titlecomplete: Jane Eyre
characters: Jane Eyre, Alice Fairfax, Sarah Reed, Blanche Ingram, Adèle Varens, Mary Rivers, Helen Burns, Edward Rochester, Bertha Mason, Maria Temple, Rosamond Oliver, Georgiana Reed, Diana Rivers, Bessie Lee, Grace Poole, Eliza Reed, Richard Mason, Robert Brocklehurst, St. John Rivers
genres: Romance, Gothic, Historical Fiction, School, 19th Century, Historical, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature
ratings_count: 2025164
places: England, United Kingdom, Thornfield Hall
publisher: Everyman