...need for something more than knitting, cooking, sewing, with an occasional interlude at the piano, "it is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them,...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex" (126). It is in expressing these discontents that Jane anticipates the heroines' complaints in the...

...precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrowminded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh: the same peal, the same low, slow ha! ha! which, when first heard, had thrilled me: I heard, too, her eccentric...

...as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.8 Far from being a condemnation of the modern and of social change, it is a positive plea for it...

...say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to...pronounced necessary for their sex. When thus alone 1 not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh . . . 2 This shift from feminist polemic to the laugh...

...their brothers do;. . . [to throw off] too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation . . . [and] to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex" (117). As Spiritualism provided this for its mediums, it seemed to provide it for Jane in the imagination...

...as men would suffer, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow- creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex."" It is certainly no coincidence that Jane meets Rochester only a few pages later in the novel, and falls...

...as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings...more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.42 How could Jane have foreseen at that moment that her prayer would be answered in ways altogether...

...feel just as men feel; [...] it is narrow-minded in their more priviledged fellow creatures to say they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing the piano and embroidering bags. (Bronte 141) This quotation implies the aforementioned parallel with...

...pleasures. At this point, the home is a place devoid of the master's presence. Here, women can only confine "themselves to making puddings and knitting...stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags" (125). The thrill of danger available to men is missing. Rochester brings the pleasures of the master...