Richard Moore calls Jane Eyre a 'love story'
(Jane Eyre: Love and the Symbolism of Art)

Jean Wyatt suggests that the ending of Jane Eyre is unsatisfactory: rather than equality between Jane and Rochester developing through her entry into the world of work, it comes through Rochester's loss of mobility and ambition.

Jean Wyatt: Bronte shows Jane as having a 'passionate assertion of autonomy and at the same a passionate commitment to romantic love'
(Jane Eyre and Romantic Love)

Robyn Warhol: Jane voices the 'importance of self-articulation and self-determination'
(Feminisms: An Antthology of Literary Theory and Criticism)

Robyn Warhol: 'The story Jane tells is not simply the story of her movement from victim [...] to familied heiress [...] it is also the story of her own [...] desire for discursive intimacy'
(Feminisms...)

Stevie Davies labels 'Jane Eyre' a 'parable of self-help'
(Preface to Jane Eyre in Penguin edition.)