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Abstract
Gateshead Hall, the residence of Mrs. Reed, and the home of the unhappy child, Jane Eyre, at the opening of the story (chapters i. to v., xxi. and xxii.) has been identified with Stonegappe, near Skipton, Yorkshire. Charlotte Brontë makes her little heroine careless to record topographical details of the building and its surroundings. Almost the only distinctive facts one gathers from the narrative are that Gateshead Hall was separated from the coach-road by a long path, that it possessed a lodge, and that a small breakfast room on the ground floor had a bowed window with a seat, features not uncommon in Yorkshire, and all possessed by Stollegappe.