<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>

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