“Jane Eyre is the first fictional heroine to give women permission, as it were, to have an intense inner life.” — Joanna Trollope
“My all-time favourite classic is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.” —
Jacqueline Wilson
“One of the most perfectly structured novels of all time.” —
Sarah Waters
“So we open Jane Eyre… The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for a moment or allows us to forget her. At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë… It is the red and fitful glow of the heart’s fire which illuminates her page.” —
Virginia Woolf
“Why does Jane Eyre retain its appeal after so many decades, and so many intervening novels of virginal young heroines, Byronic moody mysterious elder men, and melodramatic disclosures? One answer is, simply, the quality of Jane’s and Rochester’s characters. They are believable. They are intelligent, yet emotional, superior beings who are human, even flawed; as the nineteenth-century reader would have discerned, they are models for us all.” —
Joyce Carol Oates
From the Inside Flap
“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.”
Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first publication. The novel charts the life of Jane, the eponymous heroine, through her difficult first years living with her cousins, then enduring the trials of Lowood school, before going on to work as a governess. This leads her to new experiences of love, family, madness, passion, violence and destruction, before she finally achieves the independence and happiness she yearns for. A romantic drama, a daring exploration of extreme psychological states, the story of a soul’s search for salvation, the personal history of one of the best-realized female characters in English fiction, a proto-feminist call for emancipation – Jane Eyre manages to allow for all such diverging perspectives, while forming a perfect poetic whole.
The elder sister of Emily and Anne, Charlotte Brontë is most famous for her novel Jane Eyre. Based partly on her own experiences, this ground-breaking work introduced one of the best-loved heroines in modern literature. Countless critics have dissected the auto-biographical elements in Charlotte Brontë’s works, but her writing speaks for itself, with Jane Eyre ranking as one of the most popular English novels of all time.
From the Back Cover
A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its publication in 1847. Jane’s journey from a troubled childhood to independence – and her turbulent love affair with the enigmatic Mr Rochester – electrified Victorian readers with its narrative power.
With characters that are as unforgettable as the story they enact, and a striking use of language that amazed the readers of the day, Jane Eyre ranks among the most influential English novels ever written.
About the Author
Charlotte Brontë and her sisters Anne and Emily are acclaimed English novelists and poets. Charlotte is best know for her masterpiece Jane Eyre New Edition, and is also the author of Shirley and Villette.
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