Their career opportunities outside of marriage were limited to underpaid servants and schoolteachers.
At the time, women had little say outside family and home. A voice that was revolutionary in 1847 when Charlotte Brontë published it. The swooning romance between a rich man and a poor orphan, and the shock of the mad wife secreted in an attic.īut I think most of all it’s the voice of Jane herself: a young woman with an extraordinary sense of her own worth and independence. The gripping plot: part Gothic romance, part coming-of-age story. What is it about Jane Eyre that has made it a blockbuster for over a hundred and seventy years? The breathtaking writing, yes.
Jane Eyre for the Modern Age by Lindsay Marcott
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