Publisher's Synopsis
Jane Eyre is the most famous and the most popular of the great works by the three BrontE sisters. It has everything: Ghosts, mysterious characters, fantastic events, witchcraft and extreme cruelty. This is not to mention the insane wife locked up in the attic.
Jane Eyre describes itself as an autobiography but it is not really as Jane Eyre was a fictional person. However, Jane Eyre is semi-autobiographical as many of the events of the life of Jane Eyre were the same or similar to events in the life of Charlotte BrontE.
The parents of Jane Eyre have both died shortly after Jane was born. Jane went to live with an aunt and uncle but is treated badly by them, worse than even the lowest servant would be treated. One characteristic of all of the Bronte books is the women protagonists are all living in a huge but mysterious mansion. They are living a life which many readers would aspire to have. Jane Eyre is treated so badly that when her aunt proposes to send her to an orphanage for poor girls, Jane readily accepts. Jane makes friends with Helen, a girl in the orphanage, but when Helen dies Jane is distressed. This is believed to be parallel with the real events when two of the sisters of Charlotte Bronte, Maria and Elizabeth, died of tuberculosis when they were living together in a boarding school. Later it turns out that Jane should not have been impoverished or destitute at all. She had an uncle, John Eyre, who had written a letter to her aunt asking that Jane be sent to live with him and offering to will his entire considerable estate to Jane. Instead of telling Jane about this, the aunt had written back to John Eyre saying that Jane had died while living at Lowood Hall. Now, on her death bed, knowing she will be sent to Hell for this crime, the aunt summons Jane Eyre and gives her the letter.
This book is in Large Print Edition. The Fonts are 16-point type, nearly double the size of typical book printing. This is to make the book more comfortable and easier to read.
