Editing Jane Eyre (section)

=== Social class ===
Throughout the novel, Jane undergoes various social class transitions, in response to her life's varying situations.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Vanden Bossche |first=Chris |date=2005 |title=What Did Jane Eyre Do? Ideology, Agency, Class and the Novel |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2005.0001 |journal=Narrative |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=46–66 |doi=10.1353/nar.2005.0001 |s2cid=201767835 |issn=1538-974X}}</ref> As a child, she mixes with middle class people through the Reed family, though Jane is not at the same level of social class as the rest of the Reed family. While at Lowood, she experiences the life of children whose guardians can afford the school fees of "fifteen pounds per year" but nonetheless are "charity children" "because fifteen pounds is not enough for board and teaching", living in poor conditions, and later working there as an adult as a teacher on a salary of fifteen pounds. She has an opportunity to be a private governess, and in so doing double her salary, but her governess position makes her aware of her ambiguous social position as a governess to a child with a wealthy guardian.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Godfrey |first=Esther |date=2005 |title=Jane Eyre, from Governess to Girl Bride |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v045/45.4godfrey.html |journal=SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=853–871 |doi=10.1353/sel.2005.0037 |s2cid=145660993 |issn=1522-9270}}</ref> After Jane leaves Thornfield Hall, she is stripped of her class identity as she travels across the moors and arrives at Moor House. But Jane receives an inheritance which she shares with her new-found family, and this offers a different form of independence.