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6 de mai. de 2018 · Maria and Elizabeth Brontë were sent to the Clergy Daughter’s School in Cowan Bridge in Westmorland in July 1824, with Charlotte joining them there two months later. They already had some taste of school, having earlier attended the exclusive Crofton Hall School at Wakefield for a term.
AQA (A): Paper 1 Love through the ages. When Elizabeth Gaskell came to write her Life of Charlotte Brontë in 1857, she found plenty of evidence to confirm that in its early days Cowan Bridge School was every bit as bad as her subject’s fictional Lowood: the food as meagre and inedible, the heating as stingy, clothing as inadequate and the instruction as harsh.
18 de jul. de 2013 · In The Brontë Society Transactions of 1946 Mrs. Weir wrote an account of some “old documents” relating to the early days of Cowan Bridge School. Her account and the use that some biographers have made of the documents (which are now in the Haworth Museum) have puzzled me. and now that I have had an opportunity of looking at them I should ...
The poor conditions at the school were largely to blame and the school of “Lowood”, which features in Charlotte’s novel Jane Eyre (1846), is said to be based upon the experience of the sisters at Cowan Bridge. And so to St John’s Church in Tunstall! The school was started by the Reverend Carus-Wilson of Tunstall, who was the vicar here.
January 17, 1820. Anne Brontë born. April 20, 1820. Patrick becomes curate of Haworth; family moves. September 15, 1821. Maria Brontë (the children’s mother) dies of cancer. 1824. Maria and Elizabeth attend Cowan Bridge school. Charlotte and Emily follow later in the year.
18 de jul. de 2013 · Lowood School. The account of Lowood School (chapters v. to x.) is unquestionably studied from the old Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge. Much conflict has taken place upon the accuracy of the picture drawn by Charlotte Brontë, and it is undesirable to revive it. But that the account of the school reflected Charlotte Brontë's own ...
The typhus epidemic at Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters' School is the incident on which the Lowood School epidemic in Jane Eyre is widely considered to be based. At Cowan Bridge, an evangelical school under the care of the reverend William Carus Wilson, Charlotte's sister Elizabeth died of consumption during what was thought to be an outbreak of typhus (Barker 138).
