Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.[1] Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel...
Clare Hartwell, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Elizabeth Williamson, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire (New Haven, ... Patrick Brontë, His Collected Works and Life, ed., J. Horsefall Turner (Bingley: T. Harrison & Sons, 1898), 42.
The LitJoy Classics edition of Jane Eyre features a fully illustrated cover and interior end pages, five full-page illustrations, gold-color ribbon, custom slip cover, gilded gold page edges, and artwork by Felix Abel Klaer.
Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847.
HowI looked forward tocatch the first view of thewell-known woods!Withwhat feelings I welcomed single treesIknew, and familiar glimpses of meadow and hill between them! At last the woods rose; the rookery clustered dark; a loud cawing ...
Charlotte Brontë's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847.
Jane Eyre follows the spellbinding journey of a poor orphan girl who overcomes cruelty, loneliness, starvation and heartbreak on her quest for independence.
For the classroom and for the general reader, there's no better way to experience the context in which Jane Eyre was written, illuminating modern commentary, and the novel itself in an authoritative text."—Fred Kaplan, Queens College and ...
Jane Eyre
Georget gave a more sympathetic warning of the consequences of women's social situation; prohibited from outward ... Jane's primary crime, in her aunt's eyes, is her sudden flaring into violence which suggests a history of secrecy and ...