Rochester, Mr

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Rochester, Mr in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), the dark and Byronic owner of Thornfield Hall by whom Jane is employed as a governess and with whom she falls in love; their marriage is at first frustrated by the revelation that Mr Rochester' first wife, a madwoman, is still alive, kept under restraint in an attic room.

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