Charlotte Bronte

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Jane recovers at Moor House, tells her Lowood history, becomes a village schoolmistress and is taken into the Rivers family.
She inherits twenty thousand pounds, divides it with her cousins; St. John Rivers urges her to marry him and go as a missionary but she refuses.
Hearing Rochester’s voice, she finds Thornfield burnt and Rochester maimed and blind at Ferndean, cares for him, they marry and live together; St. John departs for missionary work.

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William Crimsworth, after receiving his mother’s salvaged portrait and with M. Vandenhuten’s recommendation, obtains an English professorship in Brussels and quietly marries Frances, his devoted pupil formerly a lace‑mender.
They build a successful school, raise a reflective son (Victor), endure the recurring presence of the sardonic Hunsden, and ultimately retire prosperous to Crimsworth’s native county in England.

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Lucy Snowe, a reserved English governess at Madame Beck’s pensionnat, weathers M. Emanuel’s teasing surveillance and doctrinal interventions, forms with him a tentative but deep attachment, and is anguished when he suddenly sails away on mysterious business connected with Madame Walravens.
During his three‑year absence he secretly endows her with a school at Faubourg Clotilde, which she conducts successfully while the pupils’ own romances (notably Paulina with Dr. Bretton and Ginevra’s elopement) are settled.
Emanuel returns as promised; their proved constancy, the trials endured, and mutual fidelity culminate in a reconciled, hopeful union.