Jane Eyre

Guide Note: Charlotte Brontë's classic Jane Eyre is a Gothic romance novel that concerns the passionate love between "plain" governess Jane Eyre and her moody employer Mr. Rochester. Originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the novel was an immediate critical and popular success.

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  1. Author: Charlotte Brontë
  2. Publication date: 1847
  3. Publisher: Smith, Elder & Company, London
  4. Narrator: First-person
  5. Setting: Early decades of the 19th century, northern England
  6. Tense: Past-tense
  7. Tone: Gothic and romantic
  8. Themes: Love versus autonomy; social class; treatment of children and women; gender relations; religious hypocrisy

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