Jane Eyre

American  

[jeyn air] / ˈdʒeɪn ˈɛər /

noun

1. a novel (1847) by Charlotte Brontë.

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Jane Eyre Cultural  

1. A novel by Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre serves as governess to the ward of the mysterious and moody Edward Rochester. He proposes to her, but Jane discovers that he is already married to an insane woman. Eventually Jane and Rochester are reunited and, in a famous line, “Reader, I married him.”

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Example Sentences

Few heroines of English literature have as distinct a voice as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Emily's sister Charlotte also wrote "Jane Eyre" here, another classic of English literature.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

To understand how audacious this was, imagine buying a cavernous English manor, filling it with period artifacts and exhibiting it as Thornfield Hall, home of Edward Rochester and Jane Eyre.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2022

Jane Eyre: Mr. Rochester is very conventionally attractive, with washboard abs that require him to work out every day for six hours in a complicated way and eat only eggs.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

“I don’t need any help with Jane Eyre because I’m not going to read it.”

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt