Jane Eyre pdf by Charlotte Bronte (no illustrations)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
e-book pdf (no illustrations)
This timeless novel highlights the abuse and neglect that the orphaned Jane Eyre faced while growing up.
In 1824, Charlotte went to the Clergy Daughter’s School in Cowan Bridge, Lancashire where discipline was of the highest order. It is believed that the harshness of the experience is disguised in Jane Eyre in the form of Lowood Institution and Mister Brocklehurst.
Bronte tells an amazing story about a woman who faces issues of respect in an era when women were not permitted to stand up to society. Eventually Jane finds an employer that supports her but the shadowy and ominous Mr. Rochester, hides a dreadful secret that threatens Jane’s happiness.
If you love the Bronte sisters’ writing, I would strongly suggest that you pay a visit to the beautiful village of Haworth, West Yorkshire, England. Here, you will find the Bronte Museum and Parsonage which was the Brontë family home. This is where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.
EXTRACT:
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner—something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were—she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.”
e-book pdf (no illustrations)
This timeless novel highlights the abuse and neglect that the orphaned Jane Eyre faced while growing up.
In 1824, Charlotte went to the Clergy Daughter’s School in Cowan Bridge, Lancashire where discipline was of the highest order. It is believed that the harshness of the experience is disguised in Jane Eyre in the form of Lowood Institution and Mister Brocklehurst.
Bronte tells an amazing story about a woman who faces issues of respect in an era when women were not permitted to stand up to society. Eventually Jane finds an employer that supports her but the shadowy and ominous Mr. Rochester, hides a dreadful secret that threatens Jane’s happiness.
If you love the Bronte sisters’ writing, I would strongly suggest that you pay a visit to the beautiful village of Haworth, West Yorkshire, England. Here, you will find the Bronte Museum and Parsonage which was the Brontë family home. This is where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.
EXTRACT:
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner—something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were—she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.”
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