Jane Eyre (1996 film) estate (and ultimately Mr. Rochester) with his wife, Bertha (Maria Schneider), who is mentally ill and kept locked away in an upstairs attic with a nurse, Grace Poole (Billie Whitelaw). The marriage is stopped by Bertha's brother Richard Mason (Edward de Souza) and lawyer Briggs (Peter Woodthorpe). Jane flees, her world crashing down is a nightmare. She recovers in the parsonage of her original aunt's home, discovers she is now a wealthy woman inheriting her long-lost uncle's fortune in Madeira. She gets a proposal of marriage from Parson St. John Rivers but her heart and soul is with Rochester. Jane
Thomas Rivers (nurseryman) and in 1854 took part in founding the British Pomological Society. Rivers died at Bonks Hill, Sawbridgeworth, on 17 October 1877, and was buried at Sawbridgeworth. Rivers published: He also contributed to gardening journals, beginning with a paper on apple cultivation in "Loudon's Gardener's Magazine" in 1827. By his marriage in 1827 to Mary Ann, Rivers left two sons and four daughters. His son Thomas Francis Rivers took over the family business and edited his father's works. It was Thomas Francis Rivers who introduced the Conference pear. Thomas Rivers (nurseryman) Thomas Rivers (1798–1877) was an English nurseryman, known for developing