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Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Liverpool Combined with Gothic mystery and horror, the book explores many themes, including the treatment of children, relations between men and women, religious faith and hypocrisy, individuality, morality, equality and the nature of true love. When Jane Eyre was published in 1847, it was a great success and brought fame to Charlotte Bronte. She and Rochester fall in love but, at their wedding, it is revealed he is married already and his wife, insane, is kept in Thornfield's attic. She leaves the school for Thornfield Hall, to become governess to the French ward of Mr Rochester. Jane is the orphan who survives a miserable early life, first with her aunt at Gateshead Hall and then at Lowood School. The story of Jane Eyre is one of the best-known in English fiction.

Jane eyre by charlotte brontë