Jane Eyre

The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?

Set in

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  Yorkshire · United Kingdom

  wild moors primary setting
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  Cowan Bridge School · United Kingdom

  Clergy Daughters' School Bronte attended, the real basis for Lowood
  ★ primary
• North Lees Hall · United Kingdom

  Thornfield Hall real inspiration