The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?
Adaptations (11)
Jane Eyre has been adapted 11 times, across film, television film, and television series, from 1915 to 2011.
Jane Eyre1915 · film · 30 min · dir. Travers Vale · IMDb ↗Rochester, a young Englishman touring the West Indies, meets Bertha Mason, a beautiful girl, in Spanish Town, Jamaica. The courtship ends speedily in marriage. After the wedding Rochester makes the horrible discovery that his bride's mother is demented, and later, by chance, her brother learns that she has inherited the taint. Rochester, crushed by the realization, brings his unfortunate wife to England and establishes her in his ancestral home, under care of a nurse who secretly indulges in drink. He has a young ward, Adele, for whom he engages a governess, Jane Eyre. Rochester falls in love with Jane and asks her to be his wife. Learning from his lawyer that English law does not recognize his wife's lunacy as ground for divorce, he resolves to keep her existence a secret and to marry Jane, trusting to the future for justification. But fate, in the person of Jane's cousin, intervenes and the ceremony is interrupted. Rochester endeavors to justify himself, but Jane will not hear him and determines to go out of his life. Shortly after she has left the house, Bertha contrives to bind the nurse and, with a candle, sets fire to the house. Rochester saves Adele and the nurse, but is himself overcome and rescued by his groom. The tire blinds him. Bertha, with a maniacal stream plunges from the root of the blazing building and is killed. Jane learns of the tragedy and returning filled with pity for Rochester, brings him the consolation he needs.
Jane Eyre1934 · film · 62 min · dir. Christy Cabanne · IMDb ↗IMDb4.4After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre1943 · film · 97 min · dir. Robert Stevenson · IMDb ↗IMDb7.5100%After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre1970 · television film · 110 min · dir. Delbert Mann · IMDb ↗IMDb6.4After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jana Eyrová1973 · television series · IMDb ↗IMDb7.5After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre1973 · film · 275 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.5After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre1983 · television film · 56 min · IMDb ↗IMDb8.0After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre1996 · film · 112 min · dir. Franco Zeffirelli · IMDb ↗IMDb6.878%After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre1997 · television film · 108 min · dir. Robert Young · IMDb ↗IMDb7.067%After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre2006 · television film · 1 min · IMDb ↗IMDb8.3Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.
Jane Eyre2011 · film · 120 min · dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · IMDb ↗After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
