Jane Eyre

Editorial Reviews

"Marred only by the fact that Charlotte clearly liked Mr Rochester too much; but we can forgive her that. Often given to schoolchildren to read, but you have to be a grown-up to really get it. One of the most perfectly structured novels of all time" - Sarah Waters

"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë" - Virginia Woolf

"Jane Eyre's suspense-laden, melodramatic plot - featuring child cruelty and attempted bigamy, as well as the celebrated madwoman - explains much of its appeal... Jane Eyre is a book into which generations of readers have escaped. And yet it seems to provide something far more sustaining than the escapist fantasy... Her technical skill at writing the self in a first-person narrative is supreme, her words carefully chosen" - Lucasta Miller, Guardian

"Charlotte Bronte was surely a marvellous woman. If it could be right to judge the work of a novelist from one small portion of one novel [JE], and to say of an author that he is to be accounted as strong as he shows himself to be in his strongest morsel of work, I should be inclined to put Miss Bronte very high indeed. I know of no interest more thrilling than that which she has been able to throw into the characters of Rochester and the governess, in the second volume of Jane Eyre" - Anthony Trollope

"Great genius" - William Makepeace Thackeray

"Passionately independent orphan falls for the perfect romantic anti-hero. But then she discovers what he keeps in his attic..." - Maggie O’Farrell