Jane Eyre. - Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. (Baltimore, Penguin Books, 1966)
This classic story shows how a young woman can overcome adversity and find true happiness. It is a story of passionate love, travail, and final triumph. Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night. The relationship between the heroine and Mr. Rochester is only one episode, albeit the most important, in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art. In this work, the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance but possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit, and great courage.
Keywords: Governesses -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Mentally ill women -- Fiction; Charity-schools -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Country homes -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Bildungsromans; Love stories