... girl's life from childhood to middle adulthood. After being sent to a boarding school, Jane finds a job working as a governess at Thornfield for the secretive Mr. Rochester, and coworker servants Grace Pool and Mrs. Fairfax among others. Jane finds working a mostly pleasant experience except for some occasional violent ... echo in every lonely chamber; though it originated but in one, and I could have pointed out the door whence the accents issued. 'Mrs. Fairfax!' I called out: for I now heard her descending the great stairs. 'Did you hear that loud laugh? Who is it?' 'So...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... undoubtedly some other writers who dealt with this question, e.g. Jane Austen, but the heroine of Brontë is something different because she has no high social status, she is poor, uninteresting, small and plain and Quaker-like girl. Nevertheless her personality is standing out above the others, because she ... she had died!" (260) Charlotte Brontë gave her heroine empowerment in a patriarchal society which denied women education. Jane was well educated at Lowood School. She was even teaching there for two years. But although she was well educated and employed, she was the last stupid s...

• Word Count: 975
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School