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Jane Eyre's Depression

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Born in 1860 in a small northern village of Cedarville, Jane grew up well educated and fairly wealthy. Jane was guided by her father, a self-made business man and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln. As a child, she influenced herself in literary classics and she was a highly outstanding student at Rockford Seminary. After graduation, discovering her own role was not done very easily. Jane suffered a long period of illness, physical and psychological. Jane´s depression was caused by the sudden death of her father on August 17, 1881. Two trips to Europe were influential in her eight year search for an appropriate career. By 1889, Jane came upon her true role when she, with her friend Ellen Gates Starr, established a home to many immigrants

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