Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf are both crucial novels of the English Literary Canon; one is an important work of Victorian literature, the other is a major 20th century novel. These – all over the world famous – female narratives are often examined from a feminist perspective. Written in different times, style and historical context, but both portray iconic literary female figures whose life offer a picture of what it is like to be a woman in a patriarchal society. Despite the main characters’ differences in age, personality and cultural and social background a parallel between Jane Eyre’s and Mrs Dalloway’s lives can still be drawn; trying to construct their own identity, while experiencing the agonizing nature of society’s restrictions for women, having a „separate room”, and having doubles. The similarities serve as a base which shows that there is a kind of pattern in the experience of womanhood and it is possible to generalize the struggles of being a female in a male dominated world, but they also allows us, through Mrs Dalloway’s character, to question and rationalize the life and actions of the Victorian forerunner of the modern woman, Jane Eyre.