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Jane Eyre - First two chapters review
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... JANE EYRE COURSEWORK Charlotte Brontë was born on April 21st 1816, at Thornton, in Yorkshire. She had many brothers and sisters, two of whom died of tuberculosis before she was born. Brontë had had a hard childhood trying to keep healthy and had been very unhappy at school, and the novel, Jane Eyre appears to draw on her own life and experiences in various aspects. The setting of the novel is in the Victorian Times, when a woman's place was at home and the husband's earning money by being a landowner or pursuing a profession. Brontë has created a heroin but has still made the character, Jane, to have a difficult childhood like herself (orphaned and penniless Jane being treated unfairly by her relatives) but to make something of her life as an independent woman. In the first two chapters of the novel, the author, Charlotte Brontë, establishes the background














