Jane Eyre

Published under the pen name Currer BellJane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Hailed by William Makepeace Thackeray as the masterwork of great genius Jane Eyre is still regarded over a century later as one of the finest novels in English literature. The book contains elements of social criticism with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core and is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class sexuality religion and feminism.