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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · Literary Fiction · 576 pages
47 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
gothic atmosphereslow burnworkplace romanceforbidden romancesecond chance romance
historical romancegothic
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
#42 This Month · #9 All Time
About this book
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?
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