All 3 Uses of
Quakers
in
Jane Eyre
- However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock — which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety — and adjusted my clean white tucker, I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax, and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.†
p. 117.5
- I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch — all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement — we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come; for, owing to some mistake, its arrival had hitherto been delayed.†
p. 151.9 *Quaker = a member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
- Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.†
p. 299.3quakerish = having the characteristics of a "Quaker"
Definition:
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)