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This site houses information for a panel entitled "Disability in Jane Eyre: The Madwoman and the Blindman," held at the MLA 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Thank you all for joining us at the Sheraton Boston on Saturday, January 5 for the following talks:

"From Custodial Care to Caring Labor: Caregiving in Jane Eyre"

Chris Gabbard, University of North Florida

"Illness, Disability, and Recognition in Jane Eyre"

Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College

"Visions of Rochester"

Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State University, San Marcos

We were honored to have Lennard J. Davis of the University of Illinois, Chicago as respondent.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Julia Miele Rodas co-chaired the panel.