Moor House

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Moor House is the rural home of the Rivers family in Charlotte Brontë’s novel "Jane Eyre," where the heroine finds refuge, kinship, and a new phase of independence.

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Moor House canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional house
literary location
appearsIn Jane Eyre
associatedWithCharacterArcOf Jane Eyre
St. John Rivers
associatedWithNearby St. John’s parish in Morton
associatedWithOccupationOf clergyman (St. John Rivers)
associatedWithTheme female autonomy
independence
kinship
contrastedWith Gateshead Hall
Lowood School
Thornfield Hall
countryInFiction England
createdBy Charlotte Brontë
describedAs austere
plain
rural
firstAppearsIn Jane Eyre, Volume 3
linked to: Jane Eyre
inhabitedBy Diana Rivers
Mary Rivers
St. John Rivers
languageOfWork English
laterInheritedBy Diana Rivers
Mary Rivers
literaryGenreContext Victorian novel
locatedInFictional northern England
locatedOn the moors
narrativeFunction contrast to Thornfield Hall
place of recovery for Jane Eyre
setting for Jane’s discovery of her cousins
setting for Jane’s inheritance revelation
nearToFictional Morton
Whitcross
ownedBy Rivers family
ownedByInPlot St. John Rivers’s uncle (deceased)
providesEmploymentTo Jane Eyre as village schoolmistress (indirectly)
providesRefugeFor Jane Eyre
sceneOf Jane Eyre’s decision to refuse St. John
Jane Eyre’s mystical hearing of Rochester’s voice
St. John Rivers’s proposal to Jane Eyre
symbolizes family connection
moral rigor
spiritual testing
timePeriodSetting early 19th century
visitedBy Jane Eyre
workPublicationYear 1847

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St. John Rivers setting Moor House
Mary Rivers residence Moor House
Hannah firstAppearanceLocation Moor House
subject linked to: Hannah (the Rivers’ servant)
Diana Rivers residence Moor House