Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret. Includes criticism from feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, cultural, and Marxist perspectives.
year: 1996
call number/section: 1000
subjects: governesses, fiction, fathers and daughters, mentally ill women, charity-schools, country homes, england, fiction