<P> Jane travels as far from Thornfield as she can using the little money she had previously saved . She accidentally leaves her bundle of possessions on the coach and has to sleep on the moor, and unsuccessfully attempts to trade her handkerchief and gloves for food . Exhausted and hungry, she eventually makes her way to the home of Diana and Mary Rivers, but is turned away by the housekeeper . She collapses on the doorstep, preparing for her death . St. John Rivers, Diana and Mary's brother and a clergyman, saves her . After she regains her health, St. John finds Jane a teaching position at a nearby village school . Jane becomes good friends with the sisters, but St. John remains aloof . </P> <P> The sisters leave for governess jobs, and St. John becomes somewhat closer to Jane . St. John learns Jane's true identity and astounds her by telling her that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her his entire fortune of 20,000 pounds (equivalent to over £ 1.3 million in 2011). When Jane questions him further, St. John reveals that John Eyre is also his and his sisters' uncle . They had once hoped for a share of the inheritance but were left virtually nothing . Jane, overjoyed by finding that she has living and friendly family members, insists on sharing the money equally with her cousins, and Diana and Mary come back to live at Moor House . </P> <P> Thinking Jane will make a suitable missionary's wife, St. John asks her to marry him and to go with him to India, not out of love, but out of duty . Jane initially accepts going to India but rejects the marriage proposal, suggesting they travel as brother and sister . As soon as Jane's resolve against marriage to St. John begins to weaken, she mystically hears Mr. Rochester's voice calling her name . Jane then returns to Thornfield to find only blackened ruins . She learns that Mr. Rochester's wife set the house on fire and committed suicide by jumping from the roof . In his rescue attempts, Mr. Rochester lost a hand and his eyesight . Jane reunites with him, but he fears that she will be repulsed by his condition . "Am I hideous, Jane?", he asks . "Very, sir: you always were, you know", she replies . When Jane assures him of her love and tells him that she will never leave him, Mr. Rochester again proposes, and they are married . He eventually recovers enough sight to see their firstborn son . </P> <Ul> <Li> Jane Eyre: The novel's protagonist, second wife of Edward Rochester, and title character . Orphaned as a baby, she struggles through her nearly loveless childhood and becomes governess at Thornfield Hall . Jane is passionate and strongly principled, and values freedom and independence . She also has a strong conscience and is a determined Christian . She is ten at the beginning of the novel, and nineteen or twenty at the end . </Li> <Li> Mr. Reed: Jane's maternal uncle, who adopts Jane when her parents die . According to Mrs. Reed, he pitied Jane and often cared for her more than for his own children . Before his own death, he makes his wife promise to care for Jane . </Li> <Li> Mrs. Reed: (née Gibson) Jane's maternal aunt by marriage, who reluctantly adopts Jane on her husband's wishes, but abuses and neglects her . She eventually casts her off and sends her to Lowood School . </Li> <Li> John Reed: Jane's fourteen - year - old cousin who bullies her incessantly, sometimes in his mother's presence . John eventually ruins himself as an adult by drinking and gambling, and is rumoured to have committed suicide . </Li> <Li> Eliza Reed: Jane's thirteen - year - old first cousin . Jealous of her more attractive younger sister and a slave to rigid routine, she self - righteously devotes herself to religion . She leaves for a nunnery near Lisle after her mother's death, determined to estrange herself from her sister . </Li> <Li> Georgiana Reed: Jane's eleven - year - old first cousin . Although beautiful and indulged, she is insolent and spiteful . Her elder sister Eliza foils Georgiana's marriage to the wealthy Lord Edwin Vere, when the couple is about to elope . Georgiana eventually marries a, "wealthy worn - out man of fashion ." </Li> <Li> Bessie Lee: The nursemaid at Gateshead . She often treats Jane kindly, telling her stories and singing her songs, but she has a quick temper . Later, she marries Robert Leaven and gives him three children . </Li> <Li> Robert Leaven: The coachman at Gateshead, who brings Jane the news of John Reed's death, which has brought on Mrs. Reed's stroke, and Mrs. Reed's wish to see Jane before Mrs. Reed died . </Li> <Li> Mr. Lloyd: A compassionate apothecary who recommends that Jane be sent to school . Later, he writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane's account of her childhood and thereby clears Jane of Mrs. Reed's charge of lying . </Li> <Li> Mr. Brocklehurst: The clergyman, director, and treasurer of Lowood School, whose maltreatment of the students is eventually exposed . A religious traditionalist, he advocates for his charges the most harsh, plain, and disciplined possible lifestyle, but not, hypocritically, for himself and his own family . His second daughter Augusta exclaimed, "Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look...they looked at my dress and mama's, as if they had never seen a silk gown before ." </Li> <Li> Miss Maria Temple: The kind superintendent of Lowood School, who treats the students with respect and compassion . She helps clear Jane of Mr. Brocklehurst's false accusation of deceit and cares for Helen in her last days . Eventually, she marries Reverend Naysmith . </Li> <Li> Miss Scatcherd: A sour and strict teacher at Lowood . She constantly punishes Helen Burns for her untidiness but fails to see Helen's substantial good points . </Li> <Li> Helen Burns: Jane's best friend at Lowood School . She refuses to hate those who abuse her, trusts in God, and prays for peace one day in heaven . She teaches Jane to trust Christianity and dies of consumption in Jane's arms . Elizabeth Gaskell, in her biography of the Brontë sisters, wrote that Helen Burns was' an exact transcript' of Maria Brontë, who died of consumption at age 11 . </Li> <Li> Edward Fairfax Rochester: The master of Thornfield Hall . A Byronic hero, he is tricked into making an unfortunate first marriage to Bertha Mason many years before he meets Jane, with whom he falls in love . </Li> <Li> Bertha Antoinetta Mason: The violent and insane first wife of Edward Rochester . Bertha moved to Thornfield, was locked in the attic, and eventually committed suicide after setting Thornfield Hall aflame . </Li> <Li> Adèle Varens: (a. dɛl va. ʁɛ̃) An excitable French child to whom Jane is governess at Thornfield . Adèle's mother was a dancer named Céline . She was Mr. Rochester's mistress and claimed that Adèle was Mr. Rochester's daughter, though he refuses to believe it due to Céline's unfaithfulness and Adèle's apparent lack of resemblance to him . Adèle seems to believe that her mother is dead (she tells Jane in chapter 11, "I lived long ago with mamma, but she is gone to the Holy Virgin"), but Mr Rochester later tells Jane that Céline actually abandoned Adèle and "ran away to Italy with a musician or singer" (ch. 15). Adèle and Jane develop a strong liking for one another, and although Mr. Rochester places Adèle in a strict school after Jane flees Thornfield, Jane visits Adèle after her return and finds a better, less severe school for her . When Adèle is old enough to leave school, Jane describes her as "a pleasing and obliging companion--docile, good - tempered and well - principled", and considers her kindness to Adèle well repaid . </Li> <Li> Mrs. Alice Fairfax: An elderly, kind widow and the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall . </Li> <Li> Leah: The housemaid at Thornfield Hall . </Li> <Li> John: An old, and normally the only, manservant at Thornfield . </Li> <Li> Mary: Normally referred to as' John's wife' and sometimes' the cook' . </Li> <Li> Blanche Ingram: A socialite whom Mr. Rochester temporarily courts to make Jane jealous . Ms. Ingram is described as having great beauty and talent, but displays callous behaviour and avaricious intent . </Li> <Li> Richard Mason: An Englishman from the West Indies, whose sister is Mr. Rochester's first wife . He took part in tricking Mr. Rochester into marrying Bertha . He still, however, cares for his sister's well - being . </Li> <Li> Grace Poole: Bertha Mason's caretaker . Mr. Rochester pays her a very high salary to keep Bertha hidden and quiet, and she is often used as an explanation for odd happenings . She has a weakness for drink that occasionally allows Bertha to escape . </Li> <Li> St. John Eyre Rivers: A clergyman who befriends Jane and turns out to be her cousin . St. John is thoroughly practical and suppresses all of his human passions and emotions in favour of good works . He is determined to go to India as a missionary, despite being in love with Rosamond Oliver . </Li> <Li> Diana and Mary Rivers: St. John's sisters and (as it turns out) Jane's cousins . They are poor, intelligent, and kind - hearted, and want St. John to stay in England . </Li> <Li> Rosamond Oliver: A beautiful, kindly, wealthy, but not deep thinking, young woman, and the patron of the village school where Jane teaches . Rosamond falls in love with St. John, only to be rejected because she would not make a good missionary's wife . </Li> <Li> Mr. Oliver: Rosamond Oliver's wealthy father, who owns a foundry and needle factory in the district . He is a kind and charitable man, and is fond of St. John . </Li> <Li> Alice Wood: Jane's maid when Jane is mistress of the girls' village school in Morton . </Li> <Li> John Eyre: Jane's paternal uncle, who leaves her his vast fortune and wished to adopt her when she was 15 . Mrs. Reed prevented the adoption out of spite towards Jane . </Li> </Ul>

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