“Her size is small. What is her age?” · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: “Her size is small. What is her age?”
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here Jane Eyre first meets Mr. Brocklehurst, the superintendent of Lowood School. Mrs. Reed, Jane’s aunt, sits in the corner. Mrs. Reed neglected Jane her whole life, however Mr. Reed who died shortly after Jane’s parents died, made her vow to take care of Jane. Jane expressed an interest in going to school, and Mrs. Reed found Lowood, a charity school where the students were underfed and poorly clothed, run by Mr. Brocklehurst. He was also the pastor at the church in the town near Lowood. Following an outbreak of typhus in the spring of Jane’s first year an inquiry was launched, and Mr. Brocklehurst was relegated to a seat on a newly formed a committee to oversee the school.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24855
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
Image: mta_24855_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre