#mrs fairfax

Here are some character design concepts for a personal project I’m working on.

They’re characters from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, which has been my favorite book since I first read it when I was about 14.

… folding her little hands demurely before her, shaking back her curls and lifting her eyes to the ceiling, she commenced singing a song from some opera.  It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her.

- Jane Eyre, Chapter 11