Summer Reading Notes
Jane Eyre
Background of author
Name: Charlotte Bronte
Birth/Death: April 21, 1816 to March 31,1855
Facts that connect:
Mr. Brocklehurst is based off the Reverend Carus Wilson, the man who ran Cowan Bridge.
Bronte lost two of her sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, to tuberculosis at Cowan Bridge.
Bronte 's brother, Patrick, became addicted to drugs and alcohol before he died.
Similarities:
She, along with her three sisters, was sent to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge