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Title
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This is the little girl
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Description
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Here we see Jane meeting Mr. Brocklehurst at Gateshead Hall. Jane was sent to live with her aunt after her parents died, however after her uncle died her aunt became very neglectful of Jane. She expressed an interest in going to school, so her Aunt Reed found Lowood School, a charity school run by Mr. Brocklehurst, the pastor in the village near the school. Lowood was often neglectful of its children while it was run solely by Mr. Brocklehurst, however after a typhus outbreak in the spring after Jane’s first year Mr. Brocklehurst’s sole control was replaced with a committee on which he sat.
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Image Creator
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B. S. Grieg (engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:24848
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Source Name
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Jane Eyre
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Image
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Subject
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Brontë family
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Governesses
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Fiction
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Governesses in literature
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Schools
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Fiction
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Charity-schools
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Fiction
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Orphans in literature
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Child abuse
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Childhood and youth
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Children in literature
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Children