quotes & analysis•life in early 19th-century britain Flashcards

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“he realised a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.”

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John Eyre was Jane and the Rivers’ uncle — he invested in risky new business abroad and got rich. Jane never meets him, and doesn’t know he exists for most of the novel, but inherits his large fortune — winner.

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