Then Mr. Rochester was at home when the fire broke out. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Then Mr. Rochester was at home when the fire broke out.
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Mr. Rochester standing on the roof of Thornfield as his mentally ill wife committed suicide by jumping off the building. Mr. Rochester’s wife set fire to the building before running up onto the roof. Mr. Rochester followed her, but she jumped off the roof just as he got there. A neighbour of Thornfield told Jane this story when she returned to Thornfield from Moor House and arrived finding it in ruins, destroyed by fire.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24915
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
Image: mta_24915_OBJ.png