About the Book: Jane Eyre
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and
heartless? You think wrong!" from a tragic childhood when she is abused
physically and emotionally by her inhuman aunt Reed to a youth when she falls in
love with Edward Rochester—her Byronic employer at Thornfield where she works as
a governess—only to learn on their wedding day about his lunatic wife, the
passionate and principled Jane Eyre endures many hardships and oppressions. And
after she leaves Thornfield, reduced to destitution, the rivers family becomes
her benefactor. What happens when St. John rivers, her cold clergyman-cousin,
proposes to