Despite her minimal contact with men, right from the outset Jane instinctively knows how to respond to the man she describes as "changeful and abrupt".

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We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. I grew up with Austen and Dickens, whom I loved, but the Brontes always seemed to come out on top for some reason.You don't get all the way to your SECOND wedding forgetting to mention that your FIRST wife is hidden in the attic. I am glad that in 1847 Charlotte Bronte made the decision to publish her novel under a male pseudonym.

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It is an emotional life story that contrasts the extremities of love and hate, where the principled and incorruptible mind battles the unscrupulous and most brutal of beasts and rules.

And they develop quite a strange and unconventional relationship, while many spooky and mysterious things are happening at Thornfield Hall. She even says, "Women are supposed to feel very calm, generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint. It is this freedom of expression, independence of mind, and moral commitment that consumed me so much in this story. But at nineteen, she decides that she would like to try to be a governess so that she can travel and see the world that she has learned so much about.

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Sarah Reed (NOT A BLOOD RELATIVE), and cousins Eliza, jealous of her more beautiful but spiteful sister Georgiana, and abused by them both. And the dark feelings and vibes throughout really makes this such a unique and amazing reading experience. I thought it was boring and stupid and all I wanted to do was spread the word that this book was terrible and no one should read it. If she were fortunate enough to be born pretty, she has that brief moment of power when suiters contend for her hand, but probably, ultimately, her father would decide who was best for her to marry. She lacks the requisite features of today’s female subjects of romance: the quirkiness or the humor or the adorkable way she trips and falls/spills coffee/etc.Those strange horrific noises up on the third floor , dreadful, devilish and inhuman laughs in the middle of the night, what is causing them ? This is my sixth time reading Jane Eyre (although twice at school) and every time I read it, I get something different from the story. In a funny sort of way, he might have felt he was doing the right thing by her, or at least, not the wrong thing.