Morton in Jane Eyre

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Morton in *Jane Eyre* is the small, rural English village where Jane works as a village schoolteacher and briefly lives a modest, independent life after fleeing Thornfield.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional village
literary location
appearsIn Jane Eyre
associatedWithCharacterArc Jane’s moral and spiritual testing
St. John Rivers’ missionary ambitions
associatedWithTheme Christian duty
female independence
poverty and charity
self-reliance
social class
createdBy Charlotte Brontë
describedAs rural village
small village
employsFictional Jane Eyre
firstPublishedIn Jane Eyre
surface form: Jane Eyre (1847)
governedBy local parish
hasAtmosphere austere
isolated
quiet
hasBuilding Rivers family home
church
parsonage
schoolhouse
village cottages
village school
hasEconomicCharacter poor community
working-class population
hasInstitution charity school for poor girls
hasResident Diana Rivers
Hannah (the Rivers’ servant)
Mary Rivers
St. John Rivers
hasSettingType countryside
languageOfWork English
locatedInFictional England
narrativeFunction contrast to Gateshead and Lowood
contrast to Thornfield Hall
roleInPlot location where Jane discovers her inheritance
location where Jane discovers the Rivers are her cousins
place where Jane becomes a village schoolteacher
place where Jane lives under the name Jane Elliott
refuge for Jane after she flees Thornfield
setting of Jane’s modest independent life
schoolFoundedBy St. John Rivers
schoolTaughtBy Jane Eyre
timeInNarrative after Jane leaves Thornfield Hall
before Jane returns to Mr. Rochester

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Hathersage inspiredFictionalLocation Morton in Jane Eyre