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Volume III Chapter 3 Summary. Jane recovers. Jane lies ill for three days but gradually recovers. When she gets up she helps the servant, Hannah, and finds out more about the Rivers family. Old Mr Rivers has just died and St John, Mary and Diana have come home to sort out his affairs.
Commentary. We find out more about Jane’s mother and Bessie’s ballad reflects Jane’s own condition as a poor orphan child (p. 29). Bessie’s story about the great, black dog (p. 27) is picked up in Chapter 12, and the idea that all the fairies have left England is reiterated in Chapter 13.
However, at its heart is the notion that it is an edited ‘autobiography’ – the story of Jane’s life. This is fascinating, because an autobiography is, by its very nature, ‘non-fictional’ and ‘truthful’, a chronological personal account of a life; but clearly this is a fictional narrative.
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by Charlotte Brontë. Chapters 1–3 Summary and Analysis. PDF Cite. Chapter 1. The novel opens at Gateshead Hall, the stately home of Mrs. Reed and her three children: Eliza, John, and...