‘And I am a hard woman – impossible to put off’ · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: ‘And I am a hard woman – impossible to put off’
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: After fleeing Thornfield, Jane arrived in the Moors of England. She then became the schoolmistress of the Morton school, a position to which she was appointed by Mr. Rivers. He then informed her that Mr. Briggs, a lawyer from London was looking for her, because she inherited twenty-thousand pounds from her uncle in Madeira. She then found out that Mr. Rivers and his sisters Diana and Mary were really her cousins. Jane decided in that instant that she wanted to share the money with her cousins. Mr. Rivers tried to convince her to wait a few days to make that decision, however, she said that she would not change her mind and that her decision was final.
Image Creator: Frederick Henry Townsend (engraver)
Type: StillImage; woodcut
Identifier: mta:24779
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_24779_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre