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Mr. Brocklehurst is in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë the clergyman headmaster and treasurer of Lowood School, whose maltreatment of the students is eventually exposed. He is likened frequently to "a black pillar." A religious fundamentalist, he advocates ...
Mrs Reed is Jane Eyres aunt by marriage. She adopts Jane at the bidding of her dying husband, but abuses and neglects her, and continues in her hatred until she dies.more...
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Mrs Alice Fairfax is an elderly widow and the housekeeper of Thornfield Manor. She treats Jane Eyre kindly and respectfully, but disapproves of her engagement to Mr Rochester....
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As governess at Thornfield Hall Jane Eyre falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester...