Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; 281 editions; First published in 1847; Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Charity-schools, Married people in fiction, American Jewish Congress, Country homes, Country homes in fiction, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Faculty, Open Library Staff Picks, Orphans in fiction, Young women, Married men in fiction, New York Bronte’s novel about a shy, quiet governess who becomes a tutor in a great house and falls in love with its lonely and mysterious master is one of the great classics of English literature. Unique in its attention to the thoughts and feelings of a female protagonist, Jane Eyre was ahead of its time as a proto-feminist text. When it was published in 1847, however, Bronte was attacked by
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