Inside the story
Meet Blanche Ingram
Miss Ingram is a proud, accomplished society beauty who enters Rochester’s circle at Thornfield Hall. Rochester appears to court her, while her presence places her in close connection with Jane Eyre and stirs Jane’s uncertainty about her position.
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A tall, statuesque woman of about twenty-five, dark and Spanish-looking, with glossy raven-black ringlets, large dark oriental eyes, an olive complexion, and a Grecian neck and bust; haughty in bearing.
