Jane Eyre

Book Code: 1111003595140

Charlotte Bronte

ABOUT THE BOOK

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writerCharlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell".The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative.

The novel goes through five distinct stages:

• 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 gains friends and role models but suffers oppression;
• her time as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Edward Fairfax Rochester;
• her time in the Moor House, during which her earnest clergyman cousin, St. John Rivers, proposes to her; and
• ultimately her reunion with, and marriage to, her beloved Rochester.

Throughout these sections, the novel provides perspectives on a number of important social issues and ideas, many of which are critical of the status quo.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, whose novels became classics of English literature.
Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 in Market Street Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the third of the six children of Maria and Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman. In 1820,her family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, where her father had been appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All Angels Church.
At home in Haworth Parsonage, Brontë acted as "the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters". Brontë wrote her first known poem at the age of 13 in 1829, and went on to write more than 200 poems in the course of her life. Many of her poems were "published" in their homemade magazine. She and her surviving siblings created their own fictional worlds, and began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of their imaginary kingdoms.