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Jane Eyre
     
Jane Eyre
(1847) a book by Charlotte Brontë about a young woman called Jane Eyre who becomes a governess and agrees to marry her employer, Mr Rochester, not knowing that he already has a wife who is mentally ill and kept locked in the attic (=a room under the roof) of the house.
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