"Taking the candle, it retreated to the door.”
- Title
- "Taking the candle, it retreated to the door.”
- Period
- 1850-1900;
- Description
- Here Jane holds a candle above her head. She is wearing a nightgown and her hair is disheveled. Mr. Rochester’s mentally ill wife lived on the upper floor of Thornfield and began to walk through the house in the middle of the night. Jane woke up when this happened, taking her candle into the hall to see what was going on. When Jane emerged from her room Mr. Rochester’s wife retreated.
- Image Creator
- Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
- Identifier
- mta:24900
- Language
- eng
- Source Name
- Jane Eyre
- Parent Collection
- "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
- "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
- Image
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- Collection
- Jane Eyre
- Media
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