Faculties in nineteenth-century England had been brutal and uncompromising establishments. Lowood Faculty from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a typical ladies faculty of that period, and its depiction was derived from the writer’s personal experiences at The Clergy Daughters’ Faculty, positioned in Cowan Bridge, a village within the county of Lancashire.
When the apothecary Mr. Lloyd inquires whether or not the kid Jane want to go to high school, the protagonist recollects her nursemaid Bessie’s observations of college being “a spot the place younger girls sat in shares, wore back-boards, and had been anticipated to be exceedingly genteel and exact” (I, 3, p.25).
Bessie’s remarks echo the fact of a lot ladies education within the early nineteenth century, in addition to going some method to anticipating Jane’s grueling experiences at Lowood, the place the pupils are mistreated, and the lodging, sanitation, and provisions are all of a really poor high quality. These features are vividly illustrated in a number of passages, such because the serving of burnt porridge to the ladies at breakfast: “I noticed an common manifestation of discontent when the fumes of the repast met the nostrils of these destined to swallow it” (I, 5, p.45), and the constructing’s lack of heating: “this morning we had been obliged to dispense with the ceremony of washing: the water within the pitchers was frozen” (I, 6, p.52).
Many of those incidents are drawn from Charlotte’s personal experiences at Cowan Bridge faculty, as are a number of of the characters who determine in them.
Lowood Faculty’s headmaster and treasurer is Mr. Brocklehurst, a grim and pious man who runs the establishment as cheaply as doable. When Jane first encounters him the fleeting impression she will get at first look is that of “a black pillar!” (I, 4, p.31). Mr. Brocklehurst has an unique within the Reverend William Carus-Wilson (1791-1859), the founding father of The Clergy Daughters’ Faculty. Carus-Wilson was a Calvinist Evangelist, ordained in 1816. He was additionally the son of a affluent landowner. Revelations regarding Carus-Wilson’s working of the varsity precipitated a lot controversy in later years.
The kindly superintendent Miss Temple who Jane develops an in depth friendship with has an actual life counterpart in Ann Evans, who was the superintendent at Cowan Bridge faculty. Charlotte’s beneficial depiction of Miss Temple is taken into account a ‘simply tribute’ to Ann Evans’s character.
One other Lowood employees member who was modeled on an precise individual is Miss Scatcherd, the Historical past and Grammar trainer who mercilessly bullies Jane’s buddy Helen Burns. Miss Scatcherd is seemingly based mostly on a Miss Andrews, who taught at Cowan Bridge faculty when the Bronte sisters attended, and Charlotte’s portrayal of her is kind of the other to that of Ann Evans. Actually, together with John Reed, Miss Scatcherd is arguably probably the most disagreeable character within the novel. In her Lifetime of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell alludes to the tough behaviour of Miss Andrews, cruelties echoed within the Lowood part of Jane Eyre, equivalent to when Helen is birched by Miss Scatcherd for having soiled fingernails, regardless of being unable to scrub them as a result of water being frozen that morning.
The character of Helen Burns is usually considered modeled on Charlotte’s eldest sister Maria, who died of consumption in 1825, aged solely 11. She developed the sickness from her insalubrious environment at The Clergy Daughters’ Faculty. Charlotte herself maintained that the varsity’s privations completely affected her well being as nicely and that she did not exaggerate any particulars in her descriptions of Lowood in relation to the varsity at Cowan Bridge.
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