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
John Offer Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). Offer's research has focused on the welfare state and the ideas of Herbert Spencer and Robert Pinker. His published works include: John Offer John Offer, FAcSS is a sociologist and academic. He is Professor of Social Theory and Policy at Ulster University. Offer graduated from Keele University with an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Sociology, and then completed his doctorate in sociology (PhD) there, which was awarded in 1978 for his thesis entitled "Herbert Spencer's sociology of welfare". He subsequently taught at the University of Ulster, successively as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and