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Romance
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
Literary Fiction
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
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An orphaned governess refuses, repeatedly, to be made smaller than she is.
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
- Audience
- Adult
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- Gothic
- Classic
- Governess
About the book
Brontë's novel moves from a cruel school to Thornfield Hall and its secrets, narrated in a first-person voice that still sounds startlingly direct.
Why we recommend it
Gothic atmosphere with an unusually modern moral spine.
Reading challenge selection
Prompt: A Book With a Strong Female Lead
Jane's insistence on her own worth is the entire engine of the book.
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