Jane Eyre 1847
- Fiction, Romance, Historical", Man-woman relationships, fiction
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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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Charlotte Brontë
- First published
- April 17, 1996
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Canterbury Classics, Borders Classics, Doubleday
- Editions
- 1170
- Language
- Swedish, Spanish, und, sot
- ISBN
- 9798509527777
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Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Brontë Her sisters, Anne and Emily, first published their works as Acton and Ellis Bell.
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