# Jane Eyre

**Author:** Charlotte Brontë
**Lexile:** 890L
**Grade range:** Grades 10–12
**Age range:** 15–18
**First published:** 1847
**Page count:** 532
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780141441146`
**ISBN-10:** `0141441143`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/jane-eyre
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Jane, orphaned and sent to a harsh boarding school, eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the brooding Mr. Rochester. Brontë's first-person novel is a standard British Literature text in 11th-12th grade and IB DP Literature, often paired with Wide Sargasso Sea for post-colonial re-reading.

## Themes

- independence and self-respect
- social class
- gender and autonomy
- conscience
- Gothic atmosphere
- moral choice

## Content notes

- child abuse (boarding school)
- fire
- mental illness themes

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 13+

## Where this book is assigned

### AP English Literature & Composition

- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: AP Lit representative text](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)

### IB Diploma Programme — English A: Literature

- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: IB DP English A Literature Prescribed Reading List](https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/)

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