Book profile
Jane Eyre
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 1847
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Why these tropes fit
Set in northern England, the novel traces Jane Eyre from a brutalized childhood at Gateshead Hall under her abusive aunt and cousins, through an austere education at Lowood School where she finds friends and role models, into her work as governess at the gloomy Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love with her brooding, Byronic employer Edward Rochester. After leaving Thornfield, she takes refuge with the Rivers family, where the cold, dutiful clergyman St. John Rivers asks for her hand in marriage, forcing Jane to weigh a loveless practical union against her passionate attachment to Rochester.
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- Gothic: “her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall” source
- Tortured Hero: “she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester” source
- Forbidden Love: “she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester” source
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