Title: Jane Eyre;
Authors: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Publisher: Oxford U.P.,
Year: 1969
Subjects: Eyre, Jane Fiction.; Governesses Fiction; Fathers and daughters Fiction; Mentally ill women Fiction.; Charity-schools Fiction.; Married people Fiction.; Country homes Fiction.; Young women Fiction.; Orphans Fiction; England Fiction.
Abstract: In early 19th century England, a misunderstood and mistreated orphan grows up to be a strong willed woman. She takes the job of governess at an estate, comes to love and be loved by the master of the house and they nearly marry, but the existence of his insane wife stops the wedding. She leaves to find a family. His estate burns down, his wife dies and he is blinded. She returns to tend and love him.