Blanche Ingram, Jane EyreRead about the other mean girls on the list.
Brought over to Thornfield just to make Jane Eyre jealous, Miss Ingram rises to the occasion, sneering at the governess and flirting mightily with the master of the house. She’s exquisitely snotty, and we have to wonder what Mr. Rochester said to her when he was disguised as a Gypsy telling her fortune, because when she emerged from that room she was not pleased.
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The Page 99 Test: Jane Eyre.
--Marshal Zeringue
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