Jane Eyre watches on as Mr. Rochester and his guests mingle, lithograph by Ethel Gabain, featured in
Jane Eyre watches on as Mr. Rochester and his guests mingle, lithograph by Ethel Gabain, featured in Imprimerie Nationale’s 1923 edition of Jane Eyre.‘This illustration depicts Jane, as a governess, sitting ignored by her employer, Mr. Rochester, and his upper class visitors. Charlotte Brontë served as a governess for a school and for private families and found it degrading, as she explains in this quote from her letters cited in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, “I see now more clearly than I have ever done before that a private governess has no existence, is not considered as a living and rational being except as connected with the wearisome duties she has to fulfill.”’Source -- source link
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