Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little,
I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!”
From a tragic childhood when she is abused physically and emotionally by her inhuman Aunt Reed to a youth when she falls in love with Edward Rochester—her Byronic employer at Thornfield where she works as a governess—only to learn on their wedding day about his lunatic wife, the passionate and principled Jane Eyre endures many a hardships and oppressions