Wuthering Heights
1847 · 353 pages
Heathcliff, a foundling on a Yorkshire farm, spends his life destroying two families over the girl he loves. The poet Rossetti called it a fiend of a book, its action laid in hell.
★ 8.8
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Jane Eyre
1847 · 284 pages
English fiction found its first fierce female voice in Jane, plain and poor and conceding nothing. She survives a brutal charity school, becomes a governess, and loves an employer with a secret.
★ 8.8
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.
Wuthering Heights · 1847
★ 7.0
Raftsmen Playing Cards
1847 · Saint Louis Art Museum (Saint Louis), St. Louis
Rivermen break off work for a card game on a flatboat, arranged with a stillness that lifts the scene toward history painting.
★ 5.4
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847
I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847