How long does it take to read Jane Eyre?
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë takes about 8 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 55 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1847. 486 pages, about 133,650 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1,761 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical", Man-woman relationships, fiction, Charity schools, fiction, Married people, fiction
