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Ive just completed a dissertation on the nineteenth-century governess in Britain and must say that it's led me to be strongly critical about common ideas about the theme of social class in 'Jane Eyre'. Jane does indeed assert that she is Rochester's intellectual equal despite her poverty. However, I don't believe that such an assertion was against the middle-class social norms of the period. Ill-treatment of the governess had become a topic for wide debate amongst the educated classes during the 1840s