“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!” From a tragic childhood when she is abused physically and emotionally by her inhuman aunt Reed to a youth when she falls in love with Edward Rochester—her Byronic employer at Thornfield where she works as a governess—only to learn on their wedding day about his lunatic wife, the passionate and principled Jane Eyre endures many hardships and oppressions. And after she leaves Thornfield, reduced to destitution, the rivers family becomes her benefactor. What happens when St. John rivers, her cold clergyman-cousin, proposes to her? Will she accept his proposal or return to Rochester? Presented in a classic hardbound edition with beautiful endpapers, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been addressed to ‘the reader’. it became a sensation shortly after its publication. A Bildungsroman, it follows and explores the emotions of the eponymous character while deftly stitching the motifs from Gothic fiction with Romanticism to create an exceptional Victorian novel. Adapted into various art forms, this masterpiece continues to dazzle its readers.
Charlotte Bronte ( 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Her first novel The Professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel Jane Eyre was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles. Brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.
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