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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë,

Michael Mason (Editor)

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Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard.

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Paperback, Penguin Classics, 532 pages

Published February 4th 2003 by Penguin (first published October 16th 1847)

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Jul 23, 2013 Malene rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

Jeg har længe haft 'Jane Eyre' stående på reolen og endnu længere på min to-be-read liste. Jeg har fået den anbefalet utallige af gange og alligevel har jeg ikke taget den frem, fordi jeg har fundet den ufattelig intimiderende.
For kort tid siden tog jeg mig dog endelig sammen og bogen viste sig at være noget helt særligt!

Jeg kan slet ikke forklare hvad der skete, men historien om Jane sugede mig til sig og nægtede at give slip, før sidste side i ...more

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Jul 15, 2017 Julie Rasmine Larsen rated it liked it

Jeg fik denne flotte udgave af Jane Eyre i kandidatgave, men jeg bliver aldrig rigtig venner med Charlotte Brontë. Villette kunne jeg næsten ikke komme igennem, og Jane Eyre fangede mig egentlig kun i den første del. Til sidst ville jeg helst bare være færdig. Generelt er Brontë søstrenes romaner IMO lidt for lange. Så er jeg mere til Jane Austen🖤

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Feb 15, 2019 Mathilde Ingerslev rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Jeg har hele vejen igennem vaklet mellem 4 og 5 stjerner; jeg lander nok på 4,5, hvorfor jeg runder op. Der er nogle ting ved Jane, samt den sidste del af romanen, som irriterer mig.

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Jan 26, 2016 Christina Ruskjær rated it really liked it · review of another edition

En af de bedste klassikere jeg har læst, glæder mig til at læse 2. del

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Jun 17, 2017 Bogstoetten Elfie Flamsted rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Jeg havde store forventninger til denne bog, og jeg blev meget skuffet. Bogen er meget langtrukken og i perioder decideret kedelig. Desuden fylder Gud og kristendommen meget mere i bogen, end jeg bryder mig om.

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Oct 31, 2018 Solvejg Bak rated it really liked it

Vidunderlig kærlighedshistorie med en meget stærk kvindelug helt

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Apr 07, 2019 Sara N. rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Selvrespekt er uden tvivl det vigtige domæne i denne bog - i den grad ikke sidste gang jeg læser bogen, den skal genlæses flere gange ;)

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Feb 17, 2019 Grete Larsen added it · review of another edition

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Emne: kærlighed ; England ; 1800-1899

Kærligheds- og dannelsesroman om Jane Eyre, en fattig og forældreløs pige, som efter en barsk opvækst bliver guvernante på et gods, hvor hun får brug for alt, hvad hun har af klogskab, uafhængighed og mod i sin komplicerede kærlighed til godsejeren

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Dec 10, 2017 Christina rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Virkelig en fantastisk fortælling!
Jeg var fanget fra den første side og jeg kunne virkelig godt lide måden historien blev fortalt på igennem hele bogen og måden hvorpå den også inddragede læseren.

Jane Eyre har en hård start på tilværelsen men heldet er med hende og hun kommer væk og får en god stilling. Hun forelsker sig i sin nye herre, men grundet grusomme årsager må hun flygte fra stedet. I hendes ensomhed og sorg finder hun det hun altid har søgt igennem hele livet. Dette giver hende nye m ...more

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Charlotte Brontë was a British novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the fam Charlotte Brontë was a British novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family.

In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school.

At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily, and Anne — continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826 her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called 'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories, poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of creativity was that:

'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.'

After her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre.

Brontë left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835 to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855. ...more