Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was perhaps the more gifted of the two sisters, and her best-known works are Jane Eyre and Villette. Charlotte Brontë was publishing Jane Eyre just as First Wave Feminism was beginning to develop. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is an orphan's struggle to gain economic stability and respect in a time when personal freedom and self-reliance was difficult for women. Jane becomes a governess for the intelligent and troubled Mr. Rochester with whom she falls in love. The novel is a first-person narrative of the title character called Jane Eyre. The novel goes through five stages of events: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends but also suffers different difficulties; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with Mr. Rochester and marriage to her beloved. This novel is considered to be partly autobiographical because the main character Jane Eyre can be viewed as a parallel to the author herself - a woman who was strong.