Job: North Lees Hall, Hathersage

Date:: 29 Jan 2025

Location:: North Lees Hall, Outseats, Hathersage, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire

Reference:: 2K/28716

Type:: Job containing Electronic material

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Description

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).

Content

This is part of the Volume: VF000603 Women's History Month; within the Series: HEC01/144 Women's History Month; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

This Job is divided into 8 Child Records

This Job contains the following materials:

Photograph (Digital): 8

Rights

People & Organisations

Photographer: Bull, Alun: Historic England

Keywords

Tudor Tower House, Women's History