Jean Eyre

<p>This weel-kent camin-o-age novel howks inno the feelins an ongauns o a young wumman frae her wersh an coorse bairnhood frae her growin intae adulthood an her brierin luve fur Mr. Rochester the maister o Thornfield Haa. In its screivin o the inbye thochts o action—the spotlicht is on the slaw unfauldin o Jean's ethical an itherwardly awaurness an aa the happenins are peintit wi a heichtened pouer that wis aince the warld o poetry—Jean Eyre transmogrifeed the airt o screivin. Charlotte Brontë his bin caaed the “first historian o the intimmers o thocht” an the literar forebear o screivers like Marcel Proust an James Joyce. The novel hauds swatches o social critique wi a strang feelin o Christian vertue at its mids an is thocht bi mony tae be aheid o its time gien the unique natur o Jean an the novel’s dellin intae classicism sexuality reeligion an proto-feminism.</p>