ss Kate Bishop
_Mary Ingram_ Miss Maggie Hunt
_Miss Beechey_ Miss Nellie Jordan
_Mrs. Fairfax_ Miss Alexes Leighton
_Grace Poole_ Miss Masson
_Bertha_ Miss D'Almaine
_Adele_ Mdlle. Clemente Colle
_Mr. Rochester_ Mr. Charles Kelly
_Lord Desmond_ Mr. A. M. Denison
_Rev. Mr. Price_ Mr. H. E. Russel
_Nat Lee_ Mr. H. H. Cameron
_James_ Mr. C. Stevens

Mr. Wills confined the story to Thornfield Hall. One critic described
the drama at the time as 'not so much a play as a long conversation.' A
few years ago James Willing made a melodrama of _Jane Eyre_ under the
title of _Poor Relations_. This piece was performed at the Standard,
Surrey, and Park Theatres. A version of the story, dramatised by
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, called _Die Waise von Lowood_, has been rather
popular in Germany.

{168a} Alexander Harris wrote _A Converted Atheist's Testimony to the
Truth of Christianity_, and other now forgotten works.

{168b} Julia Kavanagh (1824-1877). Her father, M. P. Kavanagh, wrote
_The Wanderings of Lucan and Dinah_, a poetical romance, and other works.
Miss Kavanagh was born at Thurles and died at Nice. Her first book, _The
Three Paths_, a tale for children, was published in 1847. _Madeline_, a
story founded on the life of a peasant girl of Auvergne, in 1848. _Women
in France during the Eighteenth Century_ appeared in 1850, _Nathalie_ the
same year. In the succeeding years she wrote innumerable stories and
biographical sketches.

{173} It runs thus:--

'_December_ 9_th_, 1848.

'The patient, respecting whose case Dr. Epps is consulted, and for
whom his opinion and advice are requested, is a female in her 29th
year. A peculiar reserve of character renders it difficult to draw
from her all the symptoms of her malady, but as far as they can be
ascertained they are as follows:--

Her appetite failed; she evinced a continual thirst, with a craving for
acids, and required a constant change of beverage. In appearance she
grew rapidly emaciated; her pulse--the only time she allowed it to be
felt--was found to be 115 per minute. The patient usually appeared worse
in the forenoon, she was then fre