The village of Hathersage (Morton) · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: The village of Hathersage (Morton)
Subject: Brontë family; Villages; Villages in literature; Villages; England; Fiction; Villages; England; Villages; England; History; Betrothal
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Derbyshire; Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see an image of a street in Hathersage, a village in Derbyshire. After running away from Thornfield after ending her engagement to Mr. Rochester she ended up in Morton, which was based on the real village of Hathersage. The same image appears in the 1899 Bigelow, Brown, and Co edition of Jane Eyre.
Image Creator: R. W. Bland (engraver); C. Barrow Keene (engraver)
Type: StillImage; Photogravure
Identifier: mta:24819
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Illus. by Richmond, Sterner, and Walker, Photogravures by R.W. Bland and C.B. Keene (1899)
Image: mta_24819_OBJ.png