| Evidence: | [A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to Charlotte Bronte's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls:] 'On first reading Jane Eyre several years ago I recognised immediately the picture there drawn [of the school], and was far from considering it in any way exaggerated. In fact, I thought at the time, and still think the matter rather understated than otherwise [comments further on points of comparison between the real and fictional schools] [...] I had no knowledge of Mrs Nicholls [Bronte] personally, therefore my statement may fairly be considered an impartial one.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1847 and 6 Jun 1857 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Charlotte Bronte |
| Title: | Jane Eyre |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28806 | |
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| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington | |
| Title: | The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | 2:4 | |
| Page: | 302-303 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence (Oxford, 1980), 2:4, p. 302-303, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28806, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Reader's letter reproduced by Nicholls in his letter of 6 June 1857 to the Editor of the Halifax Guardian, defending Bronte's representation of Cowan Bridge/Lowood against attacks by surviving members of the family who had run the real-life school. |
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