I knelt within half a yard of her. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: I knelt within half a yard of her.
Subject: Brontë family; Psychic ability; Fiction; Psychics; Fiction; Psychic ability; Psychic readings; Governesses; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Disguise in literature; Disguise; Fiction; Flirting in literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here Jane kneels in front of the psychic that came to visit Thornfield. The psychic asked to speak to each of the ladies in the party that was visiting Thornfield. It turned out that the psychic was really Mr. Rochester in disguise, as he wanted to gain insight into the minds of both Jane and Miss Ingram without them knowing who they were talking to.
Image Creator: B. S. Grieg (engraver)
Type: StillImage; engraving
Identifier: mta:24850
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Engravings by B.S. Greig (1896)
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