VICTORIAN HOUSES.

 

Mrs Reed’s house: Gateshead Hall

Mrs Reed’s house is where Jane Eyre lived because her parents were both dead. Mrs Reed was very rich, so this house was very large and beautiful, with a lot of bedrooms, and other rooms like a library, a breakfast room, a nursery, a conservatory, housemaids’ apartment and a housekeeper’s room. As it’s told in the book, there are many servants at Gateshead Hall, and this house reminds Jane Eyre of her horrible childhood with her cousins.

Lowood School

Lowood School is the first school where Jane Eyre was sent to. She describes it as a very large, cold place, because the head of the school, Mr Brocklehurst, didn’t pay for food, hot water and clothes, and all the girls slept in the same room with two girls in every bed. Anyway, in the book we can see a good place in this school: the surrounding grounds, with many flowers and healthful in spring.

Thornfield Hall

Thornfield Hall first appears when Jane looks for a job advertising her for it in a newspaper, and she gets the job in this house as a governess. It was another large place, with three floors, and very quiet, except for when Mr Rochester came to the house. On the first floor there were the dining room, the kitchen, the living room and other rooms, and bedrooms, one for each servant, were located in both the left and right side of a long corridor on the second floor. It was surrounded by a big, green garden.

St John’s house

St John’s house is located in a village with very few houses, It’s the place where Jane arrived after her runaway from Thornfield Hall. This house is not as large as the last ones, but it had two floors. Its rooms were much warmer and welcoming, and it also had a place where Jane Eyre was able to draw her pictures.

Victorian houses

When the owner was very rich, these houses were built in pleasant parts of the cities, and they were very comfortable.

They usually had three floors and a large room under the house called cellar, and they also had gardens at the front and back.

On the ground floor, there were the dining room and a drawing room, where people played cards and listened to music. The kitchen and the scullery were in this floor too, at the back of the house.

The nursery and the servants’ bedrooms were at the top of the house, in the third floor. Finally, rich people houses had an indoor toilet, but in poorer people’s houses, the toilet was located outside.