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Describe the depiction of women in the novels of Charlotte Bronte.

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In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, published in 1874, young Jane is shown as independent and assertive. While girls of her time were expected to be quiet and well behaved, Jane at the age of ten protests against the hypocrisy of her elders with startling bluntness.

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