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Chapter 1
Jane Eyre, an orphan living with her aunt Mrs. Reed and three cousins, is excluded from the family's warmth and treated as an outsider.
Chapter 2
Jane is locked in the red room, the room where her uncle Mr. Reed died.
Chapter 3
Jane wakes up in the nursery, having been moved after fainting. The apothecary Mr.
Chapter 4
Months pass and Jane is told she will be sent to Lowood Institution. Before she leaves, she confronts Mrs.
Chapter 5
Jane travels alone to Lowood Institution and arrives cold and hungry. She meets Miss Temple, a kind teacher, and Helen Burns, a fellow student who will become her closest friend.
Chapter 6
Jane settles further into Lowood's harsh routine. She watches Helen Burns get publicly punished by Miss Scatcherd for minor infractions and is baffled by how calmly Helen accepts…
Chapter 7
Mr. Brocklehurst visits Lowood and delivers a speech about humility and self-denial while his own wife and daughters stand behind him in expensive clothes and elaborate hairstyles.
Chapter 8
After the public humiliation, Jane is devastated and convinced her reputation at Lowood is ruined. Helen finds her crying and talks her down, pointing out that most of the girls p…
Chapter 9
Spring arrives at Lowood and briefly makes life feel better, but a typhus epidemic sweeps through the school. Many girls fall ill, some die.
Chapter 10
The novel jumps forward eight years. The typhus epidemic led to an inquiry into conditions at Lowood, Brocklehurst lost some of his control, and the school improved.
Chapter 11
Jane arrives at Thornfield Hall and meets Mrs. Fairfax, whom she initially mistakes for the owner of the estate.
Chapter 12
Jane grows restless at Thornfield during Rochester's absence. She takes walks on the upper leads to relieve the monotony and thinks about how women, like men, need active lives an…
Chapter 13
Rochester formally meets Jane and Adèle in the drawing room that evening. He is unconventional from the start, asking Jane blunt questions about her background and her paintings r…
Chapter 14
Rochester and Jane have a longer, more probing conversation. He speaks candidly about his past mistakes and implies he has done things he regrets, without specifying what.
Chapter 15
Rochester tells Jane the story of how Adèle came to be his ward. Her mother, Céline Varens, was a French dancer with whom Rochester had an affair.
Chapter 16
Jane tries to process the strange events of the previous night, including Rochester's fire and her own role in saving him.
Chapter 17
Rochester returns to Thornfield with a large party of aristocratic guests, including Blanche Ingram. Jane and the other servants observe the group from a distance.
Chapter 18
The house party continues. Rochester organizes a charade game in which he and Blanche act out scenes together, and most guests assume an engagement is coming.
Chapter 19
Jane goes in to see the fortune-teller and has a long conversation in which the disguised Rochester probes her feelings about his supposed engagement to Blanche and about her own…
Chapter 20
In the middle of the night, the household is woken by a cry and then the sound of a struggle. Rochester tells the guests it was a servant's nightmare and sends them back to bed.
Chapter 21
Jane is called back to Gateshead because Mrs. Reed is dying and has asked for her.
Chapter 22
Jane returns to Thornfield after weeks away and realizes, with some surprise, how much it feels like home. She sees Rochester on the road and their reunion is warm.
Chapter 23
Rochester proposes to Jane in the garden at Thornfield. Jane initially thinks he is mocking her and pushes back hard before she understands he is serious.
Chapter 24
Jane and Rochester are engaged and spending time together before the wedding. Jane is happy but also uneasy.
Chapter 25
The night before the wedding, Jane is anxious and Rochester is away. She tells him about two disturbing events when he returns: a strange woman entered her room in the night and t…
Chapter 26
The wedding ceremony between Jane and Rochester begins, but it is stopped when a solicitor named Briggs and Rochester's former servant Mason announce that Rochester is already mar…
Chapter 27
Rochester pleads with Jane to stay at Thornfield and live with him as his companion even though they cannot legally marry.
Chapter 28
Jane wanders the moors after leaving Thornfield, nearly starving and with nowhere to go. She begs for food and shelter and is turned away by strangers.
Chapter 29
Jane recovers at Moor House over about a week. She begins to talk more with the Rivers siblings and learns about their situation.
Chapter 30
Jane settles into her work at the village school and finds it more satisfying than she expected. She grows closer to Diana and Mary Rivers before they leave for their jobs as gove…
Chapter 31
Jane has arrived at Moor House and taken the position of village schoolteacher. The work is humbling after her time at Thornfield, and she struggles with the gap between her expec…
Chapter 32
Jane settles into her teaching role and begins to genuinely enjoy it. She earns the respect of her students and the community.
Chapter 33
St. John has discovered Jane's true identity.
Chapter 34
Jane prepares Moor House for Diana and Mary's return and feels genuine happiness for the first time in a long while. She has family, money, and a home.
Chapter 35
St. John's pressure on Jane reaches its peak.
Chapter 36
Jane returns to Thornfield and finds it a burned-out ruin. A local innkeeper fills her in: Bertha Mason set the fire, Rochester tried to save the servants, and in the process he l…
Chapter 37
Jane arrives at Ferndean and reunites with Rochester. He is withdrawn and bitter about his blindness, convinced Jane has moved on or forgotten him.
Chapter 38
Jane narrates the ten years of marriage that follow. She and Rochester are happy.
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