Ferndean

Finally, near the novel's end, when Jane is walking through the forest towards Ferndean, I couldn't help but think the description of the path was very vulvic, oe perhaps symbolic of the deep emotional depths of the psyche: "grass-grown track descending the forest aisle, between hoar and knotty shafts and under branches arches...it stretched on and on, it wound far and farther...all was interwoven stem, columnar tunk, dense, summer foliage--no opening anywhere."

Jane Eyre in the Carnival Mirror Victoria Janssen 2010

Presumably, we're supposed to see this as purging Rochester's past although, like the 1944 version, the film wrecks the symbolic message by having Rochester live in Thornfield's ruins, instead of decamping to Ferndean Manor...

The Little Professor: 2009

Presumably, we're supposed to see this as purging Rochester's past although, like the 1944 version, the film wrecks the symbolic message by having Rochester live in Thornfield's ruins, instead of decamping to Ferndean Manor...

Poetic justice 2009

Or take the scene of Jane's flight from Thornfield, or that other scene, unsurpassed in its passion and tenderness, of her return to Rochester at Ferndean.

The Three Brontes Sinclair, May 1912

Or take the scene of Jane's flight from Thornfield, or that other scene, unsurpassed in its passion and tenderness, of her return to Rochester at Ferndean.

The Three Brontës May Sinclair 1904

And its lord and master was generous and indulgent, and wasted, he did not care to say how many days, in displaying to her the green ruinousness of Ferndean -- in climbing the hills and hunting out the widest views for her -- in taking her out in his boat, and rowing her in sunshine and shade, enjoying her wonder and exultation most benevolently.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

Ferndean, and finally the estate itself, was drained and scattered long ago, and that the miserable annuity upon which the Professor rested peacefully as a provision for his widow and child, died with the former.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

"But this is the very season for Ferndean and Otter, when the pasture is gay as a garden, and you can have boating every day in the creeks, more sheltered than the moorland lochs."

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

"Should you not like to see Ferndean?" inquired Hector Garret.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

I should possibly have married some day -- most girls mean to do it; and only think of Ferndean and Otter.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870