Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bront?, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder and Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper and Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman which follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionised prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Bront? has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness", and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce.
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