The village of Hathersage (Morton) · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The village of Hathersage (Morton)
Subject: Brontë family; Building; Villages; Villages in literature; Cities and towns in art; Villages; England; Villages; England; History; Villages; England; Fiction
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Derbyshire; Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see an image of a street in Hathersage, a village in Derbyshire. After running away from Thornfield after ending her engagement to Mr. Rochester she ended up in Morton, which was based on the real village of Hathersage. The same image appears in the 1899 Harper edition of Jane Eyre.
Image Creator: R. W. Bland (engraver);C. Barrow Keene (engraver); R. W. Bland (engraver); C. Barrow Keene (engraver)
Type: StillImage; Photogravure
Identifier: mta:24806
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Illustration by G. Richmond, Photogravures by R.W. Bland and C.B. Keene (1899); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Illustration by G. Richmond, Photogravures by R.W. Bland and C.B. Keene (1899)
Image: mta_24806_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Brontë family; Building; Villages; Villages in literature; Cities and towns in art; Villages; England; Villages; England; History; Villages; England; Fiction