After a harsh and nearly loveless childhood at Lowood, an institution for poor and orphaned girls, the protagonist and title character becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love with Edward Rochester, the master of the house. Rochester is attracted to her, too. But there are some obstacles to their love and secrets of the past. And then almost supernatural things start to happen at the house.

Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855) was a renowned English novelist and poet of the Victorian era, best known for her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). As the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, she played a crucial role in establishing their literary reputations, often publishing under the pseudonym Currer Bell to avoid the prejudices faced by female authors at the time.