My favorite seat was a smooth and broad stone. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: My favorite seat was a smooth and broad stone.
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: In the spring of her first year there was an outbreak of typhus. During this time the children who were healthy were allowed free reign. Jane spent most of her time reading outside, on a rock near the water. She sat there with one of her friends from the school. Helen Burns was not able to spend time with Jane because she was sick with consumption, which eventually killed her.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24860
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
Image: mta_24860_OBJ.png