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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · Literary Fiction · 576 pages

63 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

enemies to loversslow burngothic atmospherecoming of ageworkplace romance
historical romancegothic
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#31 This Month · #8 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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