“The next minute she lay smashed on the pavement” · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: “The next minute she lay smashed on the pavement”
Subject: fictional works; Fictitious characters; Brontë family; Mental illness in literature; Fire in literature; Suicide in literature; Suicide victims; Fiction; Suicide; Fiction
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: After hearing Mr. Rochester’s voice while at Moor House, Jane decided to return to Thornfield. When she arrived, she found it burned down. She learned that Mr. Rochester’s mentally ill wife had set fire to the third floor and then other rooms in the house, including the bed in Jane’s old room. She then went up onto the roof and threw herself off, seen here.
Image Creator: Frederick Henry Townsend (engraver)
Type: StillImage; woodcut
Identifier: mta:24787
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre; An Autobiography
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre; An Autobiography" by Charlotte Brontë. Woodcuts by Frederick Henry Townsend (1897); "Jane Eyre; An Autobiography" by Charlotte Brontë. Woodcuts by Frederick Henry Townsend (1897)
Image: mta_24787_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: fictional works; Fictitious characters; Brontë family; Mental illness in literature; Fire in literature; Suicide in literature; Suicide victims; Fiction; Suicide; Fiction