Grace is an interesting character to say the least. I think I have come up with a reasonable explanation so I wanted to share it with you fine people.
Grace Poole is Adele's mother, the quote-on-quote "french singer". Rochester made up the whole story about Adele's birth and his relationship with her mother. I think that Grace is the woman that Rochester fell in love with as a young man in France. Adele was born but Grace eventually went crazy. Some mental disaster. Rochester was still in love with Grace but knew that he couldn't be married to an insane woman. It was all about status and appearance. But since he loved her, he took Adele in and let Grace stay with them as a seamstress in the estate. That is why she is still here. She is being taken care of and even though she terrorizes company at times, Rochester still keeps her around. I ask myself why would he keep this insane woman around his daughter and the fact that she is her mother is the only reasonable thought I can muster.
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