Bertha Mason (original) (raw)

Taking the candle, it retreated to the door

Illustrator: Edmund Garrett (1853-1929)

Source: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Ch. XXV, facing p.64

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• Jean Rhys on Brontë and Bertha Mason
• Theories of Mental Illness in the Asylum Era, 1815-1898

Image download and text by Jacqueline Banerjee.

Illustrations identified by the British Library as being in the public domain. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]