Bertha Mason Rochester in Jane Eyre is called the "madwoman" because she lights beds on fire, stabs people, sneaks into rooms and rips veils, lights the house on fire. But when you look more ...

Bertha Mason, Rochester's first wife ... When she sat down to write Jane Eyre a few years later, she combined the experience of a young, awkward, impoverished governess with the rumors of a ...

Bertha Mason seemed a “poor ghost” to Rhys ... long after the novel’s final page has been turned. If books like Jane Eyre weren’t so extraordinarily good in the first place, these apparent ...

When Charlotte Brontë sat down to write Jane Eyre, she didn’t yet know ... The story was inspiration for Bertha Mason, Rochester's first wife. In 2004, the owners of the house discovered ...

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She's also the author of a memoir, called "Praying with Jane Eyre," all about how she has ... We're talking about Bertha, the character of Bertha, and you spend a lot of time in your memoir ...

In episode two and three we looked at Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester and St John Rivers. Today it's all about Helen Burns, Mrs Reed and Bertha Mason. Carl: There's a lot of important characters in this ...