Moor House · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Moor House
Subject: Teachers; Fiction; Governesses; Fiction; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Parsonages; England; Parsonages; Betrothal; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Marriage in literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Moor House near the city of Morton. Jane recovered here after running away from Thornfield Hall after her engagement to Mr. Rochester was broken off when she found out that he was already married. Despite his pleas to stay with him, Jane ran away in the night and took a carriage to the North of England. She begged for two days and two nights before Mr. Rivers, the pastor at Morton, took her in at Moor House. She lived there for five weeks with Mr. Rivers and his sisters, Mary and Diana, and their servant, Hannah. At the end of the five weeks, Jane moved into a small cottage near the parsonage in Morton to become the mistress of the girls' school, recently opened with the help of Mr. Rivers and Rosamund Oliver, the daughter of the rich needlework factory owner.
Image Creator: Edmund Morrison Wimperis (engraver)
Type: StillImage; woodcut
Identifier: mta:24754
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)
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Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Teachers; Fiction; Governesses; Fiction; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Parsonages; England; Parsonages; Betrothal; Marriage customs and rites in literature; Marriage in literature

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