Jane Eyre was a ten years old girl. Her parents were deaid. So she lived with her aunt Mrs. Reed and her three cousins – Eliza, John and Georgiana. Mrs. Reed’s house was in a town called Gateshead, in England. Jane’s uncle Mr. Reed liked her. But he was no more. He died. Mrs. Reed did not like Jane because she was not her daughter. Her three cousins always ill-treated her and Mrs. Reed locked her up in the red room. After this incident, Mrs. Reed wrote a letter to Mr. Brocklehurst who is running a school at Lowood. Jane is sent to Lowood. There Jane was put in form four with other girls. It was a charity school which was run for the orphans. Semi-starvation and neglected colds had given way to infection. Forty-five students out of eighty girls lay ill at one time. Helen, Jane’s friend, also fell ill and died. Jane spent eight years in the school, six years as a student and two years as a teacher. She got a job as a teacher at Thornfield. There she started teaching Adela and led a new life in Thornfield.
