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Charlotte Brontë

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Born 1816 in Thornton · Died 1855 in Haworth

writer, novelist, poet · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Notable works: Villette, Shirley, The Professor, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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Jane Eyre

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1260 (public domain in the USA).

Reader, I married him.

XXXVIII. CONCLUSIONRead in context →

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”

— Spoken by a character · Chapter XXIII

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