This is a book report about Jane Eyre and the Romance of women's narration. read as a "revolutionary manifesto of the subject" (Cora Kaplan 173). Jane's value as a feminist heroine is "figured in the ability to tell (if not direct) her own story" (Poovey 140; see also Homans, Peters). The story of Jane's voice, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar have argued, is "a pattern for countless others ... a story of enclosure and escape ... of [the] difficulties Every woman in a patriarchal society must meet and overcome" (33839).[2]
