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Jane Eyre returns to Thornfield Hall and Mr Rochester, and even the thought of Blanche Ingram cannot rob her of happiness.
Jane Eyre, governess to little Adèle at Thornfield Hall, has been away at the side of her dying aunt, Mrs Reed. Her employer, Edward Rochester, has also been away, in London, buying a new carriage ahead of what Jane is sure will be his engagement to the lovely Blanche Ingram. Walking the last few miles to the Hall, Jane runs across Mr Rochester, blocking a stile, and he immediately sets about teasing her.
Alice was given a choice between her carriage and lady’s maid on the one hand, and Richard Grey on the other.
Anne Brontë’s novel Agnes Grey tells the tale of a young woman forced to earn a meagre and humiliating living as a governess. The shock of employment and the utterly alien lives of her employers is hard to bear, but no daughter of Richard and Alice Grey was afraid of a little self-sacrifice.
Arthur Huntingdon discovers that his wife is planning to leave him, and take their little boy with her.
Arthur Huntingdon is drunken, unfaithful and abusive, and teaching his young son to be like him. His wife Helen has had enough, and plans to take little Arthur to America, supporting herself as an artist of some talent. Unwisely, she has committed her plans to her secret journal, and her husband has just read it.
Jane Eyre meets a not very handsome stranger, and likes him all the better for it.
On a dark road near Thornfield Hall, Jane Eyre has caused a stranger’s horse to shy and throw its rider, a big, frowning and far from good-looking man. He brushes her offers of help away, but she hangs around all the same, prompting her to wonder why she feels so comfortable with this gruff traveller.
Was it an over-excited imagination, or an answer to prayer?
Jane Eyre has fled Edward Rochester’s house and arms in shame, after discovering he was hiding his insane wife in an attic. So when the Revd St John Rivers proposes a marriage of convenience followed by a life of self-sacrifice as missionaries in India, the heartbroken Jane gives the idea serious thought.