Jane Eyre

”Jane Eyre,” by Charlotte Brontë, is a classical novel published in 1847 under the original name Currer Bell due to Brontë’s concern that nobody would read it under a woman’s name. The book has a 4.2/5 on Goodreads and a 4/5 on Common Sense Media.

“It is interesting to read a book written long ago, but with a female protagonist who is far from the submissive woman that was often portrayed in the fiction, and preferred in society, of the time,” said Fleur Morrison on Readability Australia.

The main protagonist of the story is Jane Eyre, a woman in England who is not the typical female protagonist of her time period. She is on a journey to break out of her restrictive conditions and find love and independence through the freedom to think and feel.

“I’m only, like, a quarter of the way through but so far I really like it a lot,” said sophomore Anna Floyd. “It’s not something you can read fast. You have to sit down and pay attention to it because it’s written in an old style. I like that while reading because I get to use my brain.”