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Tonight, by listener request, we will be reading the opening to the classic 1847 novel, Jane Eyre by English writer Charlotte Bronte and published under the pen name

Curer Bell. It is a story of a young orphaned girl who lives with her aunt and cousins and is mistreated by them.

The novel is considered one of the greatest works of English fiction.

It revolutionized writing style by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate

first-person narrative where actions and

psychological intensity.

Charlotte Bronte has been called the first historian of the private consciousness and the literary ancestor of writers like

Proust and Joyce. Let's get cozy.

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