"The story of Jane Eyre, who experiences the miseries of being an orphaned child in early Victorian society, before becoming a governess at Thornfield Hall and meeting Mr Rochester. Jane shares many of Brontes' own beliefs about the position of women, arguing for a form of sexual equality."--
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Governesses--Fiction. Fathers and daughters--Fiction. Mentally ill women--Fiction. Charity-schools--Fiction. Married people--Fiction. Country homes--Fiction. Young women--Fiction. Orphans--Fiction.