This is the little girl · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: This is the little girl
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: 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.
Image Creator: B. S. Grieg (engraver)
Type: StillImage; engraving
Identifier: mta:24848
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Engravings by B.S. Greig (1896); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Engravings by B.S. Greig (1896)
Image: mta_24848_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Brontë family; Governesses; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Schools; Fiction; Charity-schools; Fiction; Orphans in literature; Child abuse; Childhood and youth; Children in literature; Children