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Jane EyreOn the coverA Moonlit Lane, John Atkinson Grimshaw
Jane Eyre
An orphaned, plain, fiercely independent girl makes her way from a cruel childhood to a post as governess at a house with a secret, insisting all the while on her own dignity, conscience, and right to love as an equal.
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A fierce, first-person voice that still feels modern, the original story of a woman who refuses to be small. Gothic, romantic, and morally uncompromising all at once.
SettingNorthern England, 1840s
In Victorian England a governess was a genteel woman with no money, too educated for the servants’ hall, too poor for the drawing room, dependent on an employer’s whim. A respectable trap with almost no exit.
On screen & beyond
- Cary Fukunaga’s film (2011)
- BBC series (2006)