An orphan child locked in a terrifying room, a governess who refuses to be owned. Charlotte Brontë's radical novel follows Jane Eyre from the brutal gates of Lowood school to the gothic mystery of Thornfield Hall, where she encounters the magnetic Mr. Rochester and discovers that love without dignity is not love at all. This is the story of one woman's fierce insistence on selfhood in a world that demands she make herself small. It scandalized Victorian readers with its passion and its insistence that a woman could choose solitude over compromise. It endures because Jane's hunger for freedom and fairness feels as urgent now as it did in 1847. For anyone who has ever been told they are too much, too angry, too proud.
