... mother even reverts to saying Jeanette is 'no daughter of [hers]' This is reminiscent of Jane Eyre as Jane's relationship with her aunt is very similar. Like Jeanette, Jane is adopted, except Jane is adopted by her aunt. One could assume that because it is her aunt she would be treated better as ... demonstrates that the statement is personal to her and illustrates the insistence of her feelings. . Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" and it is therefore written in first person. Critics generally regard the Victorian era as the golden age of English aut...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... for marriage. This conflict, usually with autobiographical resonance and often framed in metaphors of imprisonment, is embodied in such novels as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860). As much as novelists ... omniscient and reliable; sometimes merely another character among multiple centers of consciousness; sometimes indeterminate and ironic; sometimes the voice of the community, the standard by which action may be judged and a guide to readers facing a new world which they, like the na...

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