6 jun 1847 año - 'Jane Eyre', Charlotte Brontë

Descripción:

partly autobiographycal, relates the progress of the eponymous heroine from choldhoos to employment as a governess, and to love for Mr Rochester, her employer. On their wedding day, she discovers he is lready married, his mad wife being locked up in the attic. After many adventures, and some melodramatic, Gothic and fantastical episodes, Jane and Mr R, who has become blind, are finally reunited. At every stage in the story, J tries to define her identity and rebels against the requests of her aunt, the tyranny she suffers in Bricklehurst's Evanlegical school, her status as a dependent and even R's authority.
Yet Jane has to reconcile these longings for liberty with her Christian desire to serve others, and she eventually finds peace and fulfilment in helping her blind husband, Britain's colonial power is also constantly there in the background, evoking another form of rebellion, with Bertha, a Creole woman and a victim

The unconventional heroines fo CB refuse the educational contraints imposed on women and insist on speaking out