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
Jane Martha St. John taken around the time of the marriage of Caroline Julia Hicks Beach, her brother Michael's granddaughter, to John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn on 7 May 1861. It is not know if St. John took these five photos but she must surely have been in attendance at the family home on the occasion of her grandniece's marriage to her cousin Emma's first son, so it is most likely that she did. There are a few formal portraits that are almost certainly not by St. John. The rest, mainly taken by St. John in the grounds of her home and perhaps a few