AQA (A): Paper 1 Love through the ages
When Elizabeth Gaskell came to write her Life of Charlotte Brontë in 1857, she found plenty of evidence to confirm that in its early days Cowan Bridge School was every bit as bad as her subject’s fictional Lowood: the food as meagre and inedible, the heating as stingy, clothing as inadequate and the instruction as harsh. When an epidemic of what Gaskell calls ‘low fever’ broke out, the four young Brontë sisters were fetched home to Haworth, where Maria and Elizabeth died soon afterwards in 1825. According to Gaskell, Charlotte and Emily survived at the school for a further nine months. In fact, they never returned.
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