Thornfield Hall · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Thornfield Hall
Subject: Teachers; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Governesses; Fiction; Brontë family; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Thornfield Hall, where Jane Eyre lived under Mr. Rochester. She left Lowood School to become a governess to Adele Varens, Mr. Rochester’s charge. Adele’s mother was Mr. Rochester’s deceased French mistress. Jane worked for Mr. Rochester for a year before leaving after her engagement to Mr. Rochester was broken off after finding out he was already married.
Image Creator: Edmund Morrison Wimperis (engraver)
Type: StillImage; woodcut
Identifier: mta:24753
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Wood engravings by Edmund Morrison Wimperis (1872); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Wood engravings by Edmund Morrison Wimperis (1872)
Image: mta_24753_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Teachers; Fiction; Governesses in literature; Governesses; Fiction; Brontë family; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain