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    Jane Eyre is a classic Victorian novel by Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1847. It follows the life of the title character from her childhood as an orphan to her experiences at a harsh charity school and later as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she falls in love with her employer Edward Rochester, only to discover on their wedding day that he is already married to the insane Bertha Mason, who is kept locked in the attic. After fleeing Thornfield, Jane finds work with her cousin St. John but refuses his offer of marriage. She is reunited with Rochester after his wife sets fire to Thornfield, blinding him, and they marry.

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    Jane Eyre is a classic Victorian novel by Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1847. It follows the life of the title character from her childhood as an orphan to her experiences at a harsh charity school and later as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she falls in love with her employer Edward Rochester, only to discover on their wedding day that he is already married to the insane Bertha Mason, who is kept locked in the attic. After fleeing Thornfield, Jane finds work with her cousin St. John but refuses his offer of marriage. She is reunited with Rochester after his wife sets fire to Thornfield, blinding him, and they marry.

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    Jane Eyre is a classic Victorian novel by Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1847. It follows the life of the title character from her childhood as an orphan to her experiences at a harsh charity school and later as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she falls in love with her employer Edward Rochester, only to discover on their wedding day that he is already married to the insane Bertha Mason, who is kept locked in the attic. After fleeing Thornfield, Jane finds work with her cousin St. John but refuses his offer of marriage. She is reunited with Rochester after his wife sets fire to Thornfield, blinding him, and they marry.

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    Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1847 as Jane

    Eyre: An Autobiography, with Currer Bell (Brontë’s pseudonym) listed


    as the editor. Widely considered a classic, it gave new truthfulness to
    the Victorian novel with its realistic portrayal of the inner life of a
    woman, noting her struggles with her natural desires and social
    condition.
    When the novel begins, the title character is a 10-year-old orphan
    who lives with her uncle’s family; her parents had died of typhus.
    Other than the nursemaid, the family ostracizes Jane. She is later sent
    to the austere Lowood Institution, a charity school, where she and
    the other girls are mistreated; “Lowood,” as the name suggests, is the
    “low” point in Jane’s young life. In the face of such adversity,
    however, she gathers strength and confidence.
    In early adulthood, after several years as a student and then teacher
    at Lowood, Jane musters the courage to leave. She finds work as a
    governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets her dashing and
    Byronic employer, the wealthy and impetuous Edward Rochester. At
    Thornfield Jane looks after young Adèle, the daughter of a French
    dancer who was one of Rochester’s mistresses, and is befriended by
    the kindly housekeeper Mrs. Alice Fairfax. Jane falls in love with
    Rochester, though he is expected to marry the snobbish and socially
    prominent Blanche Ingram. Rochester eventually reciprocates Jane’s
    feelings and proposes marriage. However, on their wedding day, Jane
    discovers that Rochester cannot legally marry her, because he
    already has a wife, Bertha Mason, who has gone mad and is locked
    away on the third floor because of her violent behaviour. Believing
    that he was tricked into that marriage, Rochester feels justified in
    pursuing his relationship with Jane. He pleads with her to join him in
    France, where they can live as husband and wife despite the legal
    prohibitions, but Jane refuses on principle and flees Thornfield.
    Jane is taken in by people she later discovers are her cousins. One of
    them is St. John, a principled clergyman. He gives her a job and soon
    proposes marriage, suggesting that she join him as a missionary in
    India. Jane initially agrees to leave with him but not as his wife.
    However, St. John pressures her to reconsider his proposal, and a
    wavering Jane finally appeals to Heaven to show her what to do. Just
    then, she hears a mesmeric call from Rochester. Jane returns to
    Thornfield to find the estate burned, set on fire by Rochester’s wife,
    who then jumped to her death. Rochester, in an attempt to save her,
    was blinded. Reunited, Jane and Rochester marry. Rochester later
    regains some of his sight, and the couple have a son.

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