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

Upon its publication in 1857, two years after the death of the author of “Jane Eyre,” Gaskell received angry letters, threats of libel lawsuits and outraged responses from Brontë’s father and her widower.

From The Wall Street Journal

In another act of rebellion, she chooses some words from Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”—another of Thomas’s favorites—that she asks to have tattooed on her torso: “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Like Jane Eyre, the more unsustained they are, the more they respect themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal

And a spot beneath the famous road was used as a location in the BBC's 2006 adaptation of Jane Eyre, starring Ruth Wilson.

From BBC

She also played Mrs Fairfax in 1996's Jane Eyre, and her range went far beyond the classics in films like Dennis the Menace, Last Action Hero and 101 Dalmatians.

From BBC