“It was vain to try to read with such an inscrutable fixture before me.” · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: “It was vain to try to read with such an inscrutable fixture before me.”
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Women authors; Women authors, English; Church work; Missionary Church; Missionaries in literature; Missionaries; Fiction; reading; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Gothic literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Mr. Rivers and Jane Eyre sitting across from each other at a table. He looks down at a pocketbook from Morocco, as Jane looks over at him while reading a book of her own. Mr. Rivers tried to convince Jane to join him on a mission with the church to India, but she refused.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24910
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
Image: mta_24910_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Women authors; Women authors, English; Church work; Missionary Church; Missionaries in literature; Missionaries; Fiction; reading; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Gothic literature