Jane Eyre
About this book
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?
Subjects
- adaptations
- americans
- bildungsromans
- charity schools, fiction
- children's stories
- classic literature
- country homes, fiction
- criticism and interpretation
- detente
- england in fiction
- english fiction
- english literature
- examinations
- families
- family secrets, fiction
- fathers and daughters, fiction
- fiction
- fiction"
- gothic fiction
- governesses, fiction
- historical"
- history
- juvenile fiction
- landowners
- literature
- love stories
- manners and customs, fiction
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- married men
- married men, fiction
- married people, fiction
- mentally ill women, fiction
- new school for social research (new york, n.y. : 1919-1997)
- open library staff picks
- orphans, fiction
- readers for new literates
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- romance
- social classes
- social life and customs
- sources
- study guides
- teddy bears
- upper class, fiction
- young women, fiction