![]() I often give myself the pleasure when my duties are over, when the light fades. Heger’s side of that correspondence is missing, one of his surviving letters written to another former pupil several decades later, breathes an intimacy and sensuality which a susceptible woman might find deeply erotic. One of Charlotte Bronte’s impassioned letters to her married Belgian professor, Monsieur HegerĪlthough M. Heger, because her letters to him after she returned to England are filled with admissions of attachment. Heger was an avid cigar-smoker as well.Īnd what of Charlotte’s passion for her married professor? How does that play out in the novel Jane Eyre? Rochester’s penchant for smoking cigars-and M. ![]() For example, Charlotte writes with flair about Mr. The real-life man and the hero from Jane Eyre share many other personality traits and habits. Rochester in the 1970 version of Jane Eyre? ” Isn’t that an excellent description of George C. Sometimes he borrows the lineaments of an insane tomcat occasionally, he assumes an air not above 100 degrees removed from mild and gentle-man-like. Rochester in Jane Eyre 1970Ĭharlotte’s depiction of Monsieur Heger, in a letter to Ellen Nussey, is eerily similar: “He is a man of power as to mind, but very choleric and irritable as to temperament a little black ugly being, with a face that varies in expression.
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