Lowood · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Lowood
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Lowood School, where Jane Eyre lived from age ten to eighteen. Jane left her aunt at Gatehead Hall when she was ten years old, and attended the school for six years, then taught there for two. The school was a charity school, funded by Mr. Brocklehurst, the local parson. Jane left the school to be a governess for Mr. Rochester and his charge, Adele. The title underneath the image is somewhat obscured, however titles for all the images are shown in a table of contents for all images.
Image Creator: Edmund Morrison Wimperis (engraver)
Type: StillImage; woodcut
Identifier: mta:24751
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Wood engravings by Edmund Morrison Wimperis (1872); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Wood engravings by Edmund Morrison Wimperis (1872)
Image: mta_24751_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Schools; Fiction; Gothic literature; Charity-schools; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Governesses; Fiction; Teachers; Fiction; education; Brontë family