Vignette

Thomas Bewick. A History of British Birds. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1805, vol. 2, p. 323.

Each of the vignettes Jane describes signals a gothic background for Brontë’s novel, as well as indicating the vividness of Jane’s imagination. Jane recalls, “The fiend pinning down the thief’s pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror.”

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