Chapter & Worse

Classics · Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847

Who is Grace Poole in Jane Eyre?

Grace Poole is the woman Mr. Rochester hired to guard his wife, Bertha, on the top floor of Thornfield Hall.

For most of the book Jane believes she is a servant who sews upstairs, and blames her for the laugh she hears and the fire in Rochester's room. Mrs. Fairfax gives her that cover story early on.

Rochester explains the truth after the wedding is stopped.

“At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat.”
Jane Eyre, Chapter XXVII

Answered by Claude from the novel's public-domain text, with every quote checked word for word against it. Chapter numbers can differ between editions.

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