Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Brontë ; edited by Jane Jack and Margaret Smith.
Contributors: Jack, Jane.; Smith, Margaret, 1931-
Edition: Reprinted with corrections.
Series: Clarendon edition of the novels of the Brontës
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Oxford [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
Subjects: 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.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [viii]