North Lees Hall is thought to have inspired Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) in the summer of 1845 when she was staying with her friend Ellen Nussey at the vicarage in Hathersage, providing the model for Mr Rochester’s Thornfield Hall in her first and most famous novel Jane Eyre (1847).
This is part of the Job: 2K/28716 North Lees Hall, Hathersage; within the Volume: VF000603 Women's History Month; within the Series: HEC01/144 Women's History Month; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England
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Photographer: Bull, Alun: Historic England
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