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

Title: “Moor House”
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Women authors; Women authors, English; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Gothic literature; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; Architecture in literature
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see Moor House. This is the parsonage in Morton, where Mr. Rivers and his sisters lived, assisted by their housekeeper Hannah. Jane arrived here after running away from Thornton and was taken in by Mr. Rivers. Jane stayed there for several months before returning to Mr. Rochester.
Image Creator: Edmund H. Garrett (etcher)
Type: StillImage; etching
Identifier: mta:24907
Language: eng
Source Name: Jane Eyre
Parent Collection: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890); "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. Etchings by Edmund H. Garrett (1890)
Image: mta_24907_OBJ.png
Collection: Jane Eyre
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Fictitious characters; Women authors; Women authors, English; Gothic revival (Literature); Great Britain; Gothic literature; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; Architecture in literature