At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius the vehemence the indignation of Charlotte BrontVirginia Woolf Given the action of Jane Eyre which is in every sense dramatic there is a pull all the same between action and consciousness.Raymond Williams Teaching the true strength of character for generations.The Guardian Jane Eyre 1847 the first novel from Charlotte Bront originally published under the pen name Currer Bell was an immediate commercial and literary success. This classic work was unprecedented in its forthright reproach towards Victorian social norms moral duty and gender inequality It is likewise one of the most extraordinary stories of love and freedom in the English language. Jane Eyre which follows a young womans passageway into adulthood and the unfolding of her interior emotional states is a singular work of genredefying fiction.