In mostly every time period that people have lived through so far there have always been orphans and there will continue to be orphans in the world. Theses orphans have no home, no family, no money, not enough food, and they don't have warm enough clothes for the winter. The idea of someone having a governess to teach a child and to have them take care of their child is not completely unheard of today, but it is not really a common thing that you might see today unlike in the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. In this novel, Charlotte Brontë describes that life as a governess was not the greatest job to have. Being a governess had many challenges that Jane had to face. Research shows that in some ways life as an orphan and governess was like how Charlotte describes it to be in her novel, which shows how an orphan lived and she was treated; it also shows how a …show more content…
She was the third child born. According to Brian wilks, in his book; Brontës of Haworth, "The family moved to Haworth in 1820" (20). "Shortly after their arrival at Haworth, Mrs. Brontë was taken seriously I'll, and the family of six children were left motherless in September 1821" (Wilks 20). In 1824, Charlotte was sent to the Clergy Daughter's school in Cowan Bridge. She had to leave the school because two of her sisters got sick and died. Winifred Gérin said in The Brontës that; "the traumatic experience of Cowan Bridge left its mark on her page for life"(108). When Charlotte was fifteen years old she was sent to a boarding school that was 20 miles away from her house for three years (117). According to Glenn Everett and his timeline; Charlotte Brontë chronology, in 1831, "Charlotte attends Miss Wooler's school at Roe Head, near Huddersfield. Strikes up friendships with Mary Taylor and Ellen Nussey." Charlotte had many influences in her life. "The character Helen burns, who dies of tuberolecosis