• From the Novel:

“St. John is unmarried: he never will marry now…No fear of death will darken St. John’s last hour: his mind will be unclouded; his heart will be undaunted; his hope will be sure; his faith steadfast. His own words are a pledge of this: – “My Master,” he says, “has forwarned me. Daily he annouces more distinctly, – ‘Surely I come quickly’; and hourly I more eagerly respond, – ‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!” (Brontë 556).

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Broadview Press, 2022.
  • Critical Commentary:

“…The way I think about it is theological, right? Whenever we’re dealing with someone’s death and the reasons behind their deaths. Brontë is always someone who thinks that there is a real Christainness to the way someone dies…Like Aunt Reed summons Jane, St. John is saying “Here I come, Lord Jesus,”…What’s theological about it to me is that every other character is given at least some conversation around their death, but this white creole woman, this mad woman, right – this alcoholic woman, this licentious woman, right, isn’t”

“On eyre: final thoughts”. Hot and bothered, Not sorry productions, 2023
  • Historical Context:

“Henry says he is comfortably settled in Sussex [ where he was then a vicar], that his health is very improved and that it is his intention to take pupils after Easter – he then intimates that in due time he shall want a wife to take care of his pupils and frankly aks me to be that wife…I asked myself two questions – “Do I love Henry Nussey as much as a woman ought to love her husband? Am I the person best qualified to make him happy?” Alas Ellen my conscious answered “no” to both these questions”.

“What became of St. john rivers,” https://www.annebronte.org/2019/05/13/what-became-of-the-real-st-john-rivers/
  • Visual

British Library “The Juvenile Missionary Magazine.” 1844.