581 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2000 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
5 stars
(2 reviews)
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. 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 acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?
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.