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Are you sure this is from reading Jane Eyre and not Wide Sagasso Sea? Many of the details in the ensuing discussion seem to come from the latter novel.
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Positive. Most of this is from Rochester's self-serving explanation to Jane after the failed wedding and the rest from his general treatment of her and his masquerade as the gypsy. Jean Rhys used what was in the text as her springboard.