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Jane Eyre - ✔✔main character
Edward Rochester - ✔✔Jane's employer and the master of Thornfield, Rochester is a
wealthy, passionate man with a dark secret that provides much of the novel's suspense.
He and Jane fall in love.
St. John - ✔✔Jane's cousin; missionary
Mr. & Mrs. Reed - ✔✔Jane's caretakers for the first years of her life. They are cruel to
her. They own Gateshead. They call Jane a liar.
Bessie - ✔✔Servant at Gateshead; Jane's kind nanny
Mr. Lloyd - ✔✔Mr. Lloyd is the Reeds' apothecary, who suggests that Jane be sent away
to school. Always kind to Jane, Mr. Lloyd writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming
Jane's story about her childhood and clearing Jane of Mrs. Reed's charge that she is a
liar.
Georgiana and Eliza Reed - ✔✔Jane's cruel siblings at Gateshead.
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,John Reed - ✔✔John Reed is Jane's cousin, Mrs. Reed's son, and brother to Eliza and
Georgiana. John treats Jane with appalling cruelty during their childhood and later falls
into a life of drinking and gambling. John commits suicide midway through the novel
when his mother ceases to pay his debts for him.
Helens Burns - ✔✔An almost saint like friend of Jane's at the school who dies of illness.
Mr. Brocklehurst - ✔✔The cruel, hypocritical master of the Lowood School. After a
typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, Brocklehurst's shifty and dishonest practices are
brought to light and he is publicly discredited.
Maria Temple - ✔✔is a kind teacher at Lowood, who treats Jane and Helen with respect
and compassion
Miss Scatcherd - ✔✔Jane's sour and vicious teacher at Lowood, Miss Scatcherd behaves
with particular cruelty toward Helen.
Bertha Mason - ✔✔Rochester's secret wife, ultimately revealed as the insane woman in
the attic.
Alice Fairfax - ✔✔the housekeeper at Thornfield Hall. She is the first to tell Jane that the
mysterious laughter often heard echoing through the halls is, in fact, the laughter of
Grace Poole—a lie that Rochester himself often repeats.
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, Grace Poole - ✔✔Grace Poole is Bertha Mason's keeper at Thornfield, whose drunken
carelessness frequently allows Bertha to escape. When Jane first arrives at Thornfield,
Mrs. Fairfax attributes to Grace all evidence of Bertha's misdeeds.
Adele - ✔✔Mr. Rochester's ward and his supposed illegitimate child
Celine Varens - ✔✔French opera dancer with whom Rochester once had an affair. She
left Adele and Rochester took her.
Sophie - ✔✔Adele's French nurse at Thornfield
Richard Mason - ✔✔Richard Mason is Bertha's brother. During a visit to Thornfield, he
is injured by his mad sister. After learning of Rochester's intent to marry Jane, Mason
arrives with the solicitor Briggs in order to thwart the wedding and reveal the truth of
Rochester's prior marriage.
Mrs. Briggs - ✔✔John Eyre's attorney and also helps prevent their marriage because
Rochester is married
Blanche Ingram - ✔✔A beautiful socialite who despises Jane and hopes to marry
Rochester for his money.
Diana - ✔✔Jane's cousin and sister of St. John
Rosamond Oliver - ✔✔St. John is in lover with her but denies himself because of his
religion
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