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ID: 901000019
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000019
Record Type: Literature

Jane Eyre (novel, C. Bront$04e, 1847)

Note: novel by Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. The title character of the novel is a strong-willed orphan who, after surviving several miserable years at a charity school, becomes the governess to a ward of the mysterious Mr. Rochester. She and Mr. Rochester fall in love, but before they can be married it is revealed that he is already married and that his wife, who is insane, is confined in the attic of the estate. Jane leaves but is ultimately reunited with Mr. Rochester after learning of the death of his wife.

Display Date: 1847

Names:
Jane Eyre (novel, C. Bront$04e, 1847) (preferred,English-P,D)
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (novel, C. Bront$04e, 1847) (English,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Named written and performed works> (P)
........<Literary works: Prose (novels, etc.)> (P)
............Jane Eyre (novel, C. Bront$04e, 1847) (P)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... novels
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
author is .... Bell, Currer (English novelist, 1816-1855)
.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:
Jane Eyre (novel, C. Bront$04e, 1847)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (novel, C. Bront$04e, 1847)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre#/media/File:Jane_Eyre_title_page.jpg

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