It removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging them both on the floor, trampled on them. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: It removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging them both on the floor, trampled on them.
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: The night before her intended marriage to Mr. Rochester, someone broke into Jane’s room at Thornfield and ripped up her wedding veil. Jane did not know who this woman was, but she found out later that day that it was Mr. Rochester’s wife who was mentally ill.
Image Creator: Frederick Henry Townsend (engraver)
Type: StillImage; woodcut
Identifier: mta:24768
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_24768_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: fictional works; Fictitious characters; Brontë family; Marriage in literature; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Veils in literature; Mental illness in literature; Literature and mental illness; Husband and wife