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

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

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

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

Many of her works were inspired by literature or nursery rhymes, repurposing literary or folk characters like the Three Blind Mice, Jane Eyre and Snow White.

From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2022

And of course, I did a few pages of Jane Eyre, who was settling in at Mr. Rochester’s house even though he hadn’t shown up yet.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt