Jane Eyre
![The title page to the original publication of Jane Eyre, including Brontë's pseudonym "Currer Bell".](/Images/godic/202502/08/Jane_Eyre_title_page2106.jpg")
![Young Jane argues with her guardian Mrs. Reed of Gateshead, illustrated by F. H. Townsend](/Images/godic/202502/08/P30b2106.jpg")
![St. John Rivers admits Jane to Moor House](/Images/godic/202502/08/P323b2107.jpg")
![The Salutation pub in Hulme, Manchester. This is where Charlotte Brontë began to write Jane Eyre; the pub was a lodge in the 1840s.[14][15]](/Images/godic/202502/08/The_Salutation,_Manchester2107.jpg")
Jane Eyre /ˈɛər/ (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.