What word does Jane write on Helen's tombstone in Jane Eyre?

Question

And does Jane write Mr. Rochester any letters?

Answer 1

"Resurgam" (I shall rise again)

Answer 2

Jane (i. e. Charlote Bronte) doesn't explicity say that SHE wrote anything on Helen's tombstone, but she does say, at the very end of Chapter 9, that after fifteen years unmarked, Helen's grave now has a stone, engraved with the word "Resurgam [I shall rise again]."

Evidently Jane never wrote to Mr. Rochester. Mrs. Fairfax makes all the arrangements in hiring her, and the one time she and Rochester are apart before their disastrous wedding (when she goes back to Gateshead after John Reed's death and ends up staying a month when Mrs. Reed also dies), she seems to have corresponded only with Mrs. Fairfax, because when she returns to Thornfield, she mentions that Mrs. Fairfax had told her in a letter that he had been to London. When she runs away after the revelation at the wedding, she leaves no note, and once she returns, there is no indication that she and Rochester were ever apart again--and, since his ruined eyesight never improved to the extent that he could read and write more than "a little" (next-to-last page), there would have been little point in writing to him even if they had been apart.

Answer 3

Resurgam

Latin for "I shall rise again."

And no, he jokes that probably even Pilot (dog) got a letter, but Jane never wrote to him.