{"title":"The Real Miss Andrews: Teacher, Mother, Abolitionist","authors":"Sarah Fermi, Judith M. Smith","doi":"10.1179/030977600794173322","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper we will show that the fictional character, Miss Scatcherd, in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, was probably based on two teachers at the Clergy Daughters' School, Cowan Bridge, at the time of Charlotte's attendance there in 1824–25. One of these was Miss Anna Andrews, the head teacher, and the other was an unknown underteacher. We will also show that the more sadistic characteristics of Miss Scatcherd were drawn not from Miss Andrews, but from the underteacher who supervised the girls' dormitory. We will then give an account of Miss Andrews' life after she left the Clergy Daughters' School; her history will refute the contention that she was the wicked bully described by Charlotte Brontë.","PeriodicalId":230905,"journal":{"name":"Brontë Society Transactions","volume":"32 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Brontë Society Transactions","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1179/030977600794173322","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In this paper we will show that the fictional character, Miss Scatcherd, in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, was probably based on two teachers at the Clergy Daughters' School, Cowan Bridge, at the time of Charlotte's attendance there in 1824–25. One of these was Miss Anna Andrews, the head teacher, and the other was an unknown underteacher. We will also show that the more sadistic characteristics of Miss Scatcherd were drawn not from Miss Andrews, but from the underteacher who supervised the girls' dormitory. We will then give an account of Miss Andrews' life after she left the Clergy Daughters' School; her history will refute the contention that she was the wicked bully described by Charlotte Brontë.
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