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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.
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.
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.
21 de jul. de 2022 · Las hermanas Brontë reciben su primera educación formal en una institución para las hijas de los clérigos: la Clergy Daughter’s School de Cowan Bridge. La vida dentro de la escuela es insoportable, y las alumnas son sometidas a todo tipo de renuncias y mortificaciones en favor de una educación en la abnegación cristiana al estilo ...
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!
The Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge, the possible inspiration for Lowood School in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
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.
