Plot Summary
By Michael J. Cummings...© 2007
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.......Jane Eyre’s parents died before she was old enough to form memories of them. Her father had been an impoverished clergyman whom her mother married over the objections of family members who said the clergyman was beneath her. After the marriage, Jane’s mother was disinherited She was not to receive a single shilling.
.......One year into the marriage, Jane’s father caught typhus while ministering to the poor, and her mother caught the disease from him. Both died within months. Jane’s uncle, John Reed–the brother of her mother–adopted Jane, but he died not long after he brought the infant to his home, Gateshead Hall.
.......Jane has recorded the events of her life, and here is her story, beginning when she is ten years old and under the supervision of Mr. Reed’s widow, Sarah.
.......Mrs. Reed and her children–John, Eliza, and Georgiana–treat Jane cruelly. In fact, John, a stout fourteen-year-old,......

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Title: Jane Eyre
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Approximate Pages: 38 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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