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Jane Eyre

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A novel by Charlotte Brontë about an orphaned girl who becomes a governess and falls in love with her brooding employer.

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"I remember in high school I read Jane Eyre and I thought it was the most boring book in the world. What I realized at the time it was so transgressive. This idea that you would marry for love was completely transgressive at the time."
From: Is Romantic Love Secretly Bad For You? • ▶ 35:15 • Feb 2026

Attribution: Mark mentions Jane Eyre as an example of literature that was transgressive for its time in portraying marriage for love