I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Jane Eyre is a child born into unfortunate circumstances. Mistreated by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before Thornfield's strange and unnerving secret begins to unravel.
Originally published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë's best known novel, a Gothic masterpiece of character and emotion.

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sister authors. Her novels are considered masterpieces of English literature - the most famous of which is Jane Eyre.