Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is an 1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë, following an orphaned governess who falls in love with her brooding employer, Mr.
Rochester.
The book pioneered the female bildungsroman and Gothic romance.
The title character's name has become shorthand for a plain but passionate, morally resolute woman: She's a real Jane Eyre type.
Literary sisters' surname
- VictorianOf a prim era
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
- timelessUnaffected by eras
- canonicalAccepted as standard
bildungsroman · nineteenth-century · English literature · Wuthering Heights · Austen · Dickens · romanticism · realism
Something unexplained or unknown
- hauntingDisturbingly unforgettable
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- eerieDisturbingly strange
foreboding · madwoman · attic · fire · secret · moors · chilling · dread
Private household teacher
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
- assertivenessConfident self-expression quality
plainness · equality · dignity · moral integrity · resilience · self-sufficiency · determination · fortitude
New York or Minnesota city
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- passionIntense emotional drive
- loveIntense fond attachment
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
marriage · impediment · bigamy · reunion · devotion · yearning · heartache · equal partnership
Tyneside town, south bank
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- neglectFailure to provide care
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
poverty · mistreatment · resilience · boarding school · hunger · illness · Bessie · charity
Brontë
Literary sisters' surname
- VictorianOf a prim era
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
- timelessUnaffected by eras
canonical · bildungsroman · nineteenth-century · English literature · Wuthering Heights · Austen · Dickens · romanticism · realism
mystery
Something unexplained or unknown
- hauntingDisturbingly unforgettable
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
eerie · foreboding · madwoman · attic · fire · secret · moors · chilling · dread · red room
governess
Private household teacher
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
assertiveness · plainness · equality · dignity · moral integrity · resilience · self-sufficiency · determination · fortitude · agency
Rochester
New York or Minnesota city
proposal · marriage · impediment · bigamy · reunion · devotion · yearning · heartache · equal partnership · ardor
Gateshead
Tyneside town, south bank
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- crueltyDeliberate harm-causing disposition
- neglectFailure to provide care
childhood · poverty · mistreatment · resilience · boarding school · hunger · illness · Bessie · charity · loneliness
- period dramaperiod costumes, costume drama, Victorian era, period piece, Edwardian era
- romance fictionlove stories, romance novel, romance novels, contemporary romance, romantic fiction
- Bronte WorksWuthering Heights, Shirley
- British novelsPride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Middlemarch
- fictional narratorsNick Carraway, Ishmael, Holden Caulfield, Scout Finch, Stevens
- Literary HeroinesJuliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, Desdemona, Lady Macbeth
Jane EyreLady Macbeth
Scarlett O'Hara · Anna Karenina · Blanche DuBois · Miss Havisham · Daisy Buchanan
Jane EyreAnna Karenina
Ophelia · damsel in distress · Hester Prynne · Daisy Buchanan · Lady Chatterley