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The Cowan Bridge School was a Clergy Daughters' School, founded in the 1820s, at Cowan Bridge in the English county of Lancashire. It was mainly for the daughters of middle class clergy and attended by the Brontë sisters.
Cowan Bridge was the site of the Clergy Daughters' School attended by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, the notable 19th-century writers, and their older sisters Maria and Elizabeth, who died after experiencing harsh privations at the school.
5 de dez. de 2023 · In 1824, Patrick Bronte found the task of raising his family challenging and decided to enroll Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Emily at the recently established Clergy Daughters’ School in Cowan Bridge. However, in June 1825, Charlotte and her sisters were permanently withdrawn from the school.
The Bronte sisters attended the Cowan Bridge school (now Bronte School House) in 1824-25; Charlotte famously based Jane Eyre's Lowood on her experiences there!
22 de abr. de 2024 · In 1824 Charlotte and Emily, together with their elder sisters before their deaths, attended Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge, near Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancashire. The fees were low, the food unattractive, and the discipline harsh.
- Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist best known for Jane Eyre (1847), the story of an independent young governess who overcomes hardships while...
- Charlotte Brontë was one of six children. Her two eldest sisters (Maria and Elizabeth) died when she was young. She had a brother named Patrick Bra...
- Her father, Patrick Brontë, was an Anglican clergyman. He moved his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820. When they weren’t away at s...
- In 1824 Charlotte attended Clergy Daughters’ School in Lancashire. Her experiences there, including harsh discipline and terrible food, influenced...
Cowan Bridge School refers to the Clergy Daughters' School, a school mainly for the daughters of middle class clergy founded in the 1820s. It was first located in the village of Cowan...
The Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge, the possible inspiration for Lowood School in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
