This character appears in 21 books.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
Helen Burns: An angelic fellow-student and best friend of Jane's at Lowood School. Several years older than the ten-year-old Jane, she stoically accepts all the cruelties of the teachers and the deficiencies of the school's room and board. She refuses to complain, believing in the New Testament teaching that one should love one's enemies and turn the other cheek.
Memorable Quotes by Helen Burns:
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
“I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.”
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Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights (collective work)
by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
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The governess's strange desires
by Dennis Lord
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This book is based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.Jane Eyre (A Norton Critical Edition)
by Charlotte Brontë
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The Schoolmaster In Literature
by Various Authors
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GradeSaver (TM) ClassicNotes Jane Eyre: Study Guide
by Teddy Wayne
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Jane Eyre
by Currer Bell
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Bronte's Jane Eyre (Reader's Guides)
by Zoe Brennan
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I am Jane Eyre: The Untold Story
by Teana Rowland
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Jane Eyre an Autobiography (Annotated)
by Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
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