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Title: Lowood
Subject: Brontë family; Schools; Fiction; Charity-schools; Fiction; Students in literature; Orphans in literature; Governesses; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Childhood and youth; Children in literature; Children
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Lowood school for girls. Jane Eyre lived at Lowood from the ages of ten to eighteen. She was sent there by her aunt Reed after leaving Gateshead hall. She was a student there for six years and taught for two before leaving to be a governess at Thornfield hall. Two figures are visible in the foreground. The smaller figure on the right is Jane and the taller figure on the left in Helen Burns, Jane’s first friend at Lowood. Helen was four years older than Jane. She died after Jane’s first year of consumption.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24853
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_24853_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Brontë family; Schools; Fiction; Charity-schools; Fiction; Students in literature; Orphans in literature; Governesses; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Childhood and youth; Children in literature; Children