Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (1988, Portland House Illustrated Classics, Distributed by Crown Publishers)

273 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1988 by Portland House Illustrated Classics, Distributed by Crown Publishers.

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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.

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reviewed Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

A worthy classic

This was my first ever Brontë novel (no, really). I was of course familiar with the literary family but had never read any of their work (for no purposeful reason). So it was with a degree of excitement that I started Jane Eyre wondering what the popular Victorian novel could hold.

I enjoyed it from the start, and I enjoyed it more as I devoured it over three days of a holiday. Certain anachronisms aside, the social commentary was informative, and the character of Jane Eyre remarkably fresh given her age. Her personal growth throughout the novel (along with other characters') was probably the best I'd read up until that point.

Some aspects of the story I found a bit weak but overall it was a satisfying ending in the context of the time and place.

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Subjects

  • 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.