The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms. A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's Up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess.

'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. Up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful.

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