Title: Jane Eyre
First published: April 17, 1996
Description: The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?
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Places: England, Angleterre
People: Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester, St John Rivers, Louis Maison, Jane Eyre (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 19th century, 19e siècle