Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to her beloved R Partly autobiographical, the novel abounds with social It is a novel considered ahead of its In spite of the dark, brooding elements, it has a strong sense of right and wrong, of morality at its There are several Christian aspects underlying the plot that mold its character and Jane Eyre is divided into 38 chapters; most editions are at least 400 pages long (although the preface and introduction on certain copies are liable to take up another 100) The original was published in three volumes, comprising chapters 1 to 15, 16 to 26, and 27 to Brontë dedicated the novel's second edition to William Makepeace T