[Jane Eyre sits in a chair looking at Mr. Rochester] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Jane Eyre sits in a chair looking at Mr. Rochester]
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Governesses; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Flirting in literature; library; Marriage in literature; Marriage customs and rites in literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here Jane sits in a straight back chair with her back to the viewer. Mr. Rochester requested Jane spent several evenings with him in the library. She obliged and is seen here in a discussion with Mr. Rochester. There is a similar image of Mr. Rochester on the opposite page to appear to the reader as though the two characters are having a conversation across the page.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24867
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
Image: mta_24867_OBJ.png