Young Jane Eyre tends to her dying friend, Helen Burns, lithograph by Ethel Gabain, featured in Impr
Young Jane Eyre tends to her dying friend, Helen Burns, lithograph by Ethel Gabain, featured in Imprimerie Nationale’s 1923 edition of Jane Eyre.‘This illustration depicts Jane Eyre at the puritanical Lowood School visiting her dying friend, Helen Burns. As a child Charlotte lost two sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, to pulmonary tuberculosis due to the terrible conditions at the Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge. Lowood was modeled off of the Clergy Daughters’ School and the character of Helen Burns was inspired by her oldest sister, Maria, who had been like a mother to Charlotte.’Source -- source link
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