work for a living. Only three occupations were available to women of her class: paid companion, milliner or dressmaker, and teacher, either at a school like Jane Eyre’s Lowood or in a private home.

At the time, Jane Eyre’s habit of talking back to people ... Then she’d be in real trouble, with nowhere to go, no way of making a living, and ruined for any subsequent marriage.

“To be acknowledged in that way by another human being is a really gratifying thing; it makes you feel like you’re not alone ... novel. “Jane Eyre is like a bible for living life.” ...

She's also the author of a memoir, called "Praying with Jane Eyre," all about how she has learned ... on me because it reminds me that I'm not alone." People were already treating secular text ...

Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative told from the perspective of Jane, a seemingly ‘plain’ girl who meets a lot of challenges in life. The novel presents Jane’s life from childhood to ...

Patricia Park’s debut novel, “Re Jane” (Pamela Dorman/Viking: 340 pp., $27.95), is a retelling of everyone’s favorite Gothic Victorian Brontë romance, “Jane Eyre,” transferred to New ...

In The Telegraph, journalist Celia Walden also criticised the “trigger warning” saying: “Just last week, I started reading Jane Eyre to my 10-year old daughter”. Recommended Best fictional ...

I have spent years of my life reading and loving Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre." But in the last few years I have realized something: The main character of this novel isn't Jane ...