Jane Eyre

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!

Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Janes new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Janes happiness and integrity.

A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Janes voice and the novels forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women,