She peered at me over her spectacles. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: She peered at me over her spectacles.
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Jane spent eight years at Lowood school, six as a student and two as a teacher. After teaching for two years she began to feel unsatisfied and put an advertisement in the paper stating she wanted to be a governess. Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper at Thornfield Hall responded to her advertisement and hired Jane as a governess for Adele. Here the postmistress hands Jane Mrs. Fairfax's letter inviting her to Thornfield.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24861
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
Image: mta_24861_OBJ.png