31 Facts About Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Bronte.

Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.

Jane Eyre was orphaned several years earlier when her parents died of typhus.

Mr Reed, Jane Eyre's uncle, was the only member of the Reed family who was ever kind to Jane Eyre.

One day, as punishment for defending herself against her bully 14-year-old cousin John Reed, the eldest son, Jane Eyre is relegated to the red room in which her late uncle had died; there, she faints from panic after she thinks she has seen his ghost.

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Jane Eyre's is subsequently attended to by the kindly apothecary Mr Lloyd to whom Jane reveals how unhappy she is living at Gateshead Hall.

Jane Eyre recommends to Mrs Reed that Jane should be sent to school, an idea Mrs Reed happily supports.

Mrs Reed cautions Mr Brocklehurst that Jane Eyre has a "tendency for deceit", which he interprets as Jane Eyre being a liar.

Jane Eyre tells Mrs Reed and her daughters, Georgiana and Eliza, that they are the ones who are deceitful, and that she will tell everyone at Lowood how cruelly the Reeds treated her.

Later, Jane Eyre tells Helen that she could not have borne such public humiliation, but Helen philosophically tells her that it would be her duty to do so.

Jane Eyre then tells Helen how badly she has been treated by Mrs Reed, but Helen tells her that she would be far happier if she did not bear grudges.

Jane Eyre's is then forced to stand on a stool, and is branded a sinner and a liar.

Jane Eyre takes the position, teaching Adele Varens, a young French girl.

One night, while Jane Eyre is carrying a letter to the post from Thornfield, a horseman and dog pass her.

At Jane Eyre's first meeting with Mr Rochester, he teases her, accusing her of bewitching his horse to make him fall.

Jane Eyre sees that Blanche and Mr Rochester favour each other and starts to feel jealous, particularly because she sees that Blanche is snobbish and heartless.

Jane Eyre then receives word that Mrs Reed has suffered a stroke and is calling for her.

However, one midsummer evening, Rochester baits Jane Eyre by saying how much he will miss her after getting married and how she will soon forget him.

Rochester then is sure that Jane Eyre is sincerely in love with him, and he proposes marriage.

Jane Eyre is at first skeptical of his sincerity, before accepting his proposal.

Jane Eyre's then writes to her Uncle John, telling him of her happy news.

Jane Eyre is tempted but realises that she will lose herself and her integrity if she allows her passion for a married man to consume her, and she must stay true to her Christian values and beliefs.

Jane Eyre becomes good friends with the sisters, but St John remains aloof.

Jane Eyre initially accepts going to India but rejects the marriage proposal, suggesting they travel as brother and sister.

Jane Eyre's learns that Rochester sent Mrs Fairfax into retirement and Adele to school a few months following her departure.

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Jane Eyre asserts herself as a financially independent woman and assures him of her love, declaring that she will never leave him; Rochester proposes again, and they are married.

Rochester regains sight in one eye two years after his and Jane Eyre's marriage, enabling him to see their newborn son.

Early sequences, in which Jane Eyre is sent to Lowood, a harsh boarding school, are derived from the author's own experiences.

Jane Eyre has made its mark upon the age, and even palsied the talons of mercenary criticism.

Unlike Bertha, Jane Eyre is thought of as being sound of mind before the reader is able to fully understand the character, simply because she is described as having a complexion that is pale and she has grown up in a European society rather than in an "animalistic" setting like Bertha.

Jane Eyre is favoured heavily from the start of her interactions with Rochester, simply because like Rochester himself, she is deemed to be of a superior ethnic group than that of his first wife.