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.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional house
ⓘ
literary location ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jane Eyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacterArcOf |
Jane Eyre
GENERATED
ⓘ
St. John Rivers GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedWithNearby | St. John’s parish in Morton GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedWithOccupationOf | clergyman (St. John Rivers) GENERATED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
female autonomy
ⓘ
independence ⓘ kinship ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Gateshead Hall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lowood School NERFINISHED ⓘ Thornfield Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Charlotte Brontë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
austere
ⓘ
plain ⓘ rural ⓘ |
| firstAppearsIn | Jane Eyre, Volume 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy |
Diana Rivers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ St. John Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| laterInheritedBy |
Diana Rivers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Whitcross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Rivers family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedByInPlot | St. John Rivers’s uncle (deceased) ⓘ |
| providesEmploymentTo | Jane Eyre as village schoolmistress (indirectly) ⓘ |
| providesRefugeFor | Jane Eyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1847 ⓘ |
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