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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. In the 1830s it moved to Casterton, Cumbria, a few miles away.
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 dic. de 2023 · The Bronte sisters and Cowan Bridge School. Cowan Bridge comprises a small cluster of approximately six or seven cottages, situated at both ends of a bridge that spans a little stream named the Leck. This bridge marks the intersection of the high road connecting Leeds to Kendal.
3 de sept. de 2017 · When we think of the Brontës’ school days we inevitably think of tragedy. Cowan Bridge is the first thing that springs to mind, recreated viscerally as Lowood in Jane Eyre, and where elder sisters Maria and Elizabeth Brontë contracted the tuberculosis that killed them.
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!
20 de abr. de 2016 · Jane Eyre’s experiences at Lowood reproduce Charlotte’s at Cowan Bridge School. Both Villette and The Professor (1857) draw on her time as first a student and then a teacher in the Pensionnat...
24 de may. de 2022 · The school at Cowan Bridge was widely blamed for the deaths of Charlotte’s two older sisters Maria and Elizabeth who both perished from tuberculosis in 1825. As a result, Charlotte became the eldest child in the family and had to take a lead role in bringing up her siblings.
