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Jane Eyre: reading log
Chapter

Main events

Key characters

Settings

Themes

Quotation(s)

I
1-7

Jane hides away to read
...
I desired liberty…’

11
80-93

Jane meets Mrs Fairfax who
treats her well surprisingly
She meets Adela and learns
of Mr Rochester

Jane Eyre
Mrs Fairfax
Adela
Grace Poole (?)

Thornfield

Relief,

‘I rose; I dressed myself with care:
obliged to be plain’

12
94-102

Jane takes a walk and finds
Mr Rochester and his horse
fallen over so she helps
Mr Rochester, as he sprains
his ankle then pays a visit to
Thornfield
Adele stops concentrating as
she wants to see Mr
Rochester

Mr Rochester
Jane Eyre
Mrs Fairfax

Thornfield/outside

Help, kindness

Jane Eyre
Adele
Rochester

Thornfield

13
103-112

‘No wonder you have rather the look
of another world
...
’

He invites Adele and Jane to
tea and asks jane about her
life
‘I am sure most people would have
thought him an ugly man; yet there
was so much unconscious pride in
his port; so much case in his
demeanour; such a look of complete
indifference to his own external
appearance; so haughty a reliance
on the power of other qualities,
intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for
the lack of mere personal
attractiveness, that in looking at him,
one inevitably shared the
indifference; and even in a blind,
imperfect sense, put faith in the
confidence
...
Rochester now ugly in
my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and
many associations, all pleasurable
and genial, made his face the object
I best liked to see’

14
112-122

Rochester sends for Jane and
Adèle after dinner
Jane says he isn’t handsome
and he tells her about his life
They discuss ethics and he
worries he drove her away by
being weird

Jane
Rochester
Adele

Thornfield

Intelligence, connections

15
123-133

Rochester tells Jane that he
loved Adele’s mum but she
cheated on him – he doesn’t
believe Adele to be his
daughter but couldn’t
abandon her
Jane hears a laugh outside
her bedroom and finds
Rochester’s bed curtains on
fire with him half unconscious
She thinks it was Grace Poole

Jane
Rochester
Celine Veron

Thornfield

Intimacy, past, scary,
deceit

16
133-141

Jane speaks to Grace about
the incident
Rochester leaves to stay at
the Leas, where local beauty
Blanche Ingram stays
Jane wonders if he likes
Blanche
She then paints a picture of
herself with flaws and of a
beauty like Blanche

Jane
Grace Poole
Rochester
Blanche Ingram

Thornfield

Heartbreak, longing, skill

call it 'Blanche, an accomplished
lady of rank

17
141-158

Rochester informs the house
he is returning with friends

Jane
Rochester
Adele
Blanche

Thornfield

Sadness, longing

"He is not to them what he is to me,"
I thought: "he is not of their kind
...
’

Jane
Rochester
Blanche
Gypsy woman

Thornfield

Class boundaries,
sadness, deceit

‘Then appeared the magnificent
figure of Miss Ingram, clad in white,
a long veil on her head,’

“You are my little friend, are you
not?"

19
171-180

Jane speaks to the gypsy who
tells her fortune (jane doesn’t
believe her)
The gypsy is actually
Rochester in disguise, but
Jane forgives him

Jane
Gypsy Woman
Rochester

Thornfield

Deceit, hope

20
180-193

Jane is woken up by a
strange shriek from the third
floor, then she hears
thumping and banging
upstairs, Someone is calling
for Mr
...

Everyone in the house is
woken up by all the noise
...


Jane
Rochester
Mason

Thornfield

Deceit, terror,

Rochester takes Jane to Mr
Mason who has passed out
from blood loss
Jane is locked in the room,
terrified of the women in the
next room (Grace etc)
He was bitten
They then go for a walk
21
193-212

Lately, Jane’s been having
strange nightmares about a
baby
...
Reed’s
coachman, who married
Bessie
...

Reed had a stroke when she
heard
...

Reed has been asking to see
Jane
...

Apparently, Jane’s mother
was Mr
...
Reed defended
her
...
Reed was always
attached to his sister and her
child, Jane Eyre, and Mrs
...

Georgiana talks to Jane more
As she’s dying, Mrs
...

She wrote to John Eyre and
told him Jane died of typhus
during the epidemic at
Lowood
Jane stays a while after
Reed’s death for Eliza and
Georgiana then as she walks
the last bit to Thornfield, sees
Rochester writing in a book
Nobody speaks of his
wedding so Jane hopes it’s
been called off
Jane and Rochester walk in
the garden together
He says he is marrying
Blanche and jane should
move to Ireland and she cries
Rochester kisses her and
proposes, but she thinks he’s
joking

Jane
Eliza
Georgiana
Rochester

Reed home/
Thornfield

Family, love

‘If I dared, I’d touch you, to see if you
are substance or shadow, you elf!’

Jane
Rochester

Thornfield

Heartbreak, love, class
issues

"But, Jane, I summon you as my
wife: it is you only I intend to marry
...
Don’t address me as
if I were a beauty; I am your plain,
Quakerish governess
...
I wish I could forget the roll of
the red eyes and the fearful
blackened inflation of the
lineaments!"

her wedding dress and veil
...

The stranger was a tall
woman with long, dark hair
dressed in white; her face
was disturbing, with bloodshot
red eyes, swollen, dark lips,
and thick black eyebrows
...

Jane fainted
...
”

27
262-284

Rochester tells Jane that he
hid Bertha because he
thought no one would work
here
Jane weeps and tells him she
has to leave permanently
He tells her the story: Edward
Rochester’s father didn’t want
to divide his fortune, so he left

Jane
Bertha
Rochester

Thornfield

Lies, secrets, love,

‘But, then, a voice within me averred
that I could do it and foretold that I
should do it
...
He
found the rich Mason family in
Jamaica and arranged for
Edward to marry Bertha
Mason
...
Everyone
encouraged him, and she
seemed to be great, so he
married her, the way the two
families wanted
...

She leaves despite
Rochester’s pleading

28
284-298

The coachman leaves Jane at
Whitcross because her
money has run out
...
The dew fell, but with
propitious softness; no breeze
whispered
...
"

29
299-308

Jane lies in bed for 3 days
4th, she gets up and talks to
Hannah
The family are called Rivers
and their parents died
Ther unlcle died giving 20k to
another sibling

Jane
St John
Hannah
Diana
Mary

Moor House

30
309-317

Jane befriends Diana and
Mary but they move away for
their new jobs
John offers the job of running
a girls school in town of
Morton where john is the
clergyman for £30 a year like
Thornfield and Jane accepts

Jane
Diana
Mary
John

Moor House

Friendship, new
beginnings,

‘I liked to learn of her: I saw the part
of instructress pleased and suited
her; that of scholar pleased and
suited me no less
...
’

32
323-333

Jane works hard and is liked
Miss oliver keeps coming in
knowing that John is in love
with her
She gets to know Mr Oliver
She paints Rosamund Oliver
and tries to get John and her
together
John puts scrap paper over
the portrait and sees
something on the paper that
he tears off and keeps

Jane
Miss Oliver
Mr Oliver
John

Morton

Gratitude, hard work,

33
333-344

John tells Jane a story he
discovered; 20 years before,
a poor clergyman married a
rich man’s daughter and her
family disowned her
...
I never
had a home, I never had brothers or
sisters; I must and will have them
now: you are not reluctant to admit
me and own me, are you?"

dead and left an orphan
daughter
...
Reed of Gateshead and
lived there for ten years
...

After eight years at Lowood,
the orphan became a
governess for the ward of a
man named Mr
...

Rochester proposed to the
girl, but at the altar it was
revealed that his wife was
alive and insane
...

Jane asks St
...

Rochester is, and he says he
doesn’t know—he just knows
all the details that Mason’s
lawyer, Mr
...

St
...

Rochester must have been "a
bad man," but Jane denies
this
...
John then shows Jane the
thing he got so excited about
the day before—her name,
written on the piece of paper
he tore off
...
John that
Mr
...
Eyre, who finally
died out in Madeira
...
She finds out

that she has inherited twenty
thousand pounds
...
Briggs
wrote to him about her
...

John Eyre Rivers—his mother
was the sister of Jane’s
father
...

John are all Jane’s cousins
She splits the 20k 4 ways to
bring the rivers family
together
34
344-363

At xmas time Jane closes the
school
She prepares Moor House for
Diana and Mary
Jane also makes weekly visits
to the school
...
John is
really excited about these
weekly visits and encourages
Jane to make them in all
types of weather
John wants Jane to stop
learning German and learn
Hindustani with him
She write so Mrs Fairfax but
no reply
John asks Jane to marry him
and go to India together to be
Missionarys wife which she
rejects

Jane
Diana
Mary
John

Moor House

incest

‘He prizes me as a soldier would a
good weapon; and that is all
...
’

36
372-380

37
380-397

38
397-401

Jane travels to Thornfield but
she sees a burnt ruin
Bertha burned down the
house by setting fire to Jane’s
bed
Rochester saved the servants
and then climbed up to a high
wall where Bertha was
standing to try to rescue her,
but she jumped off and
committed suicide
...

Jane asks where Rochester is
now, and the innkeeper tells
her that he’s at his other
home, Ferndean
...

She gets to Ferndean and
suprises Rochester
He realises she doesn’t love
St John and they agree to
marry
He worries she won’t want to
marry him because of his
blindness but she wants to be
useful
He says he called her name
and a voice responded they
think their spirits met

Jane
Bertha
Rochester

Thornfied

Death, terror

Jane
Rochester

Ferndean

Love, reunion,

Jane and Rochester have a
quiet wedding; the servants
are surprised, but they
approve
...
John
doesn’t write to her for six
months
...
The
caged eagle, whose gold-ringed
eyes cruelty has extinguished, might
look as looked that sightless
Samson
...

Jane and Rochester live
happily ever after; the Jane
telling the story has been
married to Mr
...

Rochester gets his sight back
after two years of marriage
...

Diana and Mary Rivers each
get married
...
John Rivers goes to India
alone and works himself to
death there

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