She peered at me over her spectacles.
- Title
- She peered at me over her spectacles.
- Period
- 1850-1900;
- 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)
- 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
- Media
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