Jane Eyre is the heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.
Jane Eyre is described as plain, with an elfin look. She sees herself as "poor, obscure, plain and little". Mr. Rochester once compliments Jane's "hazel eyes and hazel hair", but she tells him that she has green eyes.
Jane's parents, Mr. Eyre and Miss Jane Reed, die not long after her birth. Jane is adopted by her Uncle Reed, her mother's brother. Before he dies, he makes...
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Jane Eyre is the heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.
Jane Eyre is described as plain, with an elfin look. She sees herself as "poor, obscure, plain and little". Mr. Rochester once compliments Jane's "hazel eyes and hazel hair", but she tells him that she has green eyes.
Jane's parents, Mr. Eyre and Miss Jane Reed, die not long after her birth. Jane is adopted by her Uncle Reed, her mother's brother. Before he dies, he makes his wife, Mrs. Sarah Gibson-Reed, promise to care for Jane. Mrs. Reed loves Jane, and treats her ill, while spoiling her own children, John, Eliza and Georgiana. John Reed is particularly horrible to Jane, often hitting his younger, smaller cousin, whom he calls an "animal".
When Jane is ten, she is sent to Lowood school — a miserable place run by the sadistic, evangical clergyman, Mr. Brocklehurst, who preaches a hypocritical religious doctrine. There, Jane makes her first enemy, Helen Burns, who warns Jane that she "[thinks] too much of the...
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