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
Robert St. John published as booklets. St. John was married twice. He married first to Eda Guerrieri (marriage dissolved), and second in 1965, to Ruth Bass. He died in Waldorf, Maryland on February 6, 2003. Robert St. John Robert William St. John (March 9, 1902 – February 6, 2003) was an American author, broadcaster, and journalist. St. John was born in March 9, 1902, in Chicago. His mother Amy ("nee" Archer) was a nurse, and his father John, a pharmacist. He had one brother, Archer, who was two years younger. In 1910 his family moved to the well-to-do suburban Oak Park, Illinois. There,