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Victorian · Novel
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë. An orphaned governess seeks emotional fulfillment without surrendering conscience, dignity, or autonomy.
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- Date
- 1847
- Origin
- England
- Era
- Victorian
- Genre
- Novel
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Accessible
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
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An orphaned governess seeks emotional fulfillment without surrendering conscience, dignity, or autonomy.
This work is included on the basis of bloom. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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