Mr. Rochester, I must leave you. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Mr. Rochester, I must leave you.
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here Jane Eyre tells Mr. Rochester that she cannot marry him. After the truth about his marriage came out, Jane decided she could not go through with her marriage on the morning that their wedding was scheduled. Jane walks away, and Mr. Rochester tried to stop her. She ends up running away, sleeping outside for several days before being taken in by the pastor for the village she arrived in. This pastor ended up being Jane’s cousin.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24902
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_24902_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Women authors; Women authors, English; Marriage in literature; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Gothic literature