Moorseats, Hathersage (Moorhouse, Morton) · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Moorseats, Hathersage (Moorhouse, Morton)
Subject: Brontë family; Moors (Wetlands) in literature; Moors (Wetlands); Moors (Wetlands) in art; Stairs; Manors in literature; Manors; Architecture, Domestic, in literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Derbyshire; Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see an image of Moorseats, a house in the village of Hathersage, a village in Derbyshire. After running away from Thornfield after ending her engagement to Mr. Rochester Jane ended up in Morton, which was based on the real village of Hathersage. She arrived at Moor house with Mr. Rivers and his sisters, Diana and Mary. She lived with them for several months and taught at the village school before returning to Mr. Rochester. The same image appeared 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:24820
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_24820_OBJ.png