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Charlotte Brontë

1816–1855 · English novelist and poet whose fiction explores conscience, autonomy and social constraint.

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About Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre places questions of autonomy, conscience, love and social power inside Jane’s first-person narrative. The novel’s declarations of independence are presented here with their dramatic setting rather than as context-free modern slogans.

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Wording is checked against the Project Gutenberg public-domain edition of Jane Eyre. Each record names the chapter and preserves Jane’s original sentence boundaries.

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre, Chapter 23 · View source

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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre, Chapter 27 · View source

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