Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

An orphan bullied by her aunt and half-starved at a charity school grows into a governess and takes a post at Thornfield Hall. Her employer is drawn to her and she to him, but the house keeps something locked on its upper floor. A poor orphan who insists on her own worth; love refused until it can be met as an equal.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ The Mysteries of Udolpho
  Ann Radcliffe · 1794 CE · Novel
• ↓ Wuthering Heights
  Emily Brontë · 1847 CE · Novel — parallels this
• ↓ Wide Sargasso Sea
  Jean Rhys · 1966 CE · Novel — responds to this
• ↓ The Yellow Wallpaper
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1892 CE · Short Story — responds to this
• ↓ Agnes Grey
  Anne Brontë · 1847 CE · Novel — parallels this

Attributes

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