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  1. www.sparknotes.com › lit › janeeyreJane Eyre Chapters 1–4 Summary & Analysis - SparkNotes

    Summary: Chapter 1. The novel opens on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. A young girl named Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick’s History of British Birds. Jane’s aunt, Mrs. Reed, has forbidden her niece to play with her cousins Eliza, Georgiana, and the bullying John.

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      After having been abroad for some time, Rochester returns to...

  2. www.litcharts.com › lit › jane-eyreJane Eyre Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts

    Jane Eyre: Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis. Jane Eyre: Chapter 1. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. On a dreary afternoon in Gateshead Hall, the ten-year-old Jane Eyre, who has been forbidden by her Aunt from playing with her three cousins, finds a curtained window seat ...

  3. www.gradesaver.com › jane-eyre › study-guideJane Eyre Volume I, Chapters 1-5 Summary and Analysis

    Jane Eyre Summary and Analysis of Volume I, Chapters 1-5. Volume I, Chapter 1 Summary: The novel begins with the ten-year-old Jane Eyre narrating from the home of the well-off Reed family in Gateshead Hall. Mr. Reed, Jane’s uncle, took her into his home after both of her parents died of typhus fever, but he soon died himself. Mrs.

  4. www.coursehero.com › lit › Jane-EyreJane Eyre Chapter 1 Summary - Course Hero

    Summary. The story opens on a rainy November day at Gateshead Hall. Jane Eyre, age 10, is banished from the company of the three Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, who are gathered happily around their mother in the drawing room. Jane settles down in a window seat to enjoy making up stories about the pictures in a nature book.

  5. www.shmoop.com › volume-1-chapter-1-summaryJane Eyre Volume 1, Chapter 1 Summary - Shmoop

    Jane Eyre Volume 1, Chapter 1 Summary. Back. More. Jane Eyre begins with the adult Jane looking back at her life. She jumps into the story at a moment in her childhood when she’s ten years old. On this particular day, Jane and her cousins John, Eliza, and Georgiana aren’t going to do something: they’re not going to take a walk, because it ...

  6. quizlet.com › gb › 441881115Jane Eyre Chapter 1 Summary and Analysis Flashcards - Quizlet

    A child's point of view - this chapter is one of the earliest accounts given by a child from a child's point of view in English fiction. Though it is actually being narrated in retrospect by the mature Jane Rochester several years after the end of the chapter 37, it provides us with the highly suggestive portrait of Jane's thoughts and feelings as a child.

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  8. www.cliffsnotes.com › literature › jJane Eyre - CliffsNotes

    Summary. It is a cold, wet November afternoon when the novel opens at Gateshead, the home of Jane Eyre's relatives, the Reeds. Jane and the Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana sit in the drawing room. Jane's aunt is angry with her, purposely excluding her from the rest of the family, so Jane sits alone in a window seat, reading Bewick's ...