... by Mrs. Reed. He also had the five girls sent to school at Cowan Bridge, where conditions were poor, and when fever broke out at the school, two of the girls died from the disease. These aspects are correlated to Eyre at Lowood, where Helen Burns was not only admired as a friend, but ... also loved like a sister, and also is, her death suffered due to her meagre situation at the school. The settings of Jane Eyre unmistakably contain elements that characterized her ... by a sense of hopelessness and was said to have never entertained pleasant thoughts of the future. Charlotte Bronte was s...

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... the characters and Branwell but also other instances from their books and life. The most obvious example of a childhood experience coming out in a Bronte writing is Charlotte's representation of the Lowood School in Jane Eyre compared to her experiences at Cowan Bridge. While attending Cowan Bridge as a young child, both of Charlotte's older sisters passed away from tuberculosis, the same disease that ... earlier. (Bloom, 61) This left Charlotte as the eldest Bronte sibling without a mother causing a lot of the maternal responsibilities to fall to her. In "Jane Eyre" while at Lowood, He...

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