Moorseats Hall is in Hathersage, which is a village in the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. Hathersage is famous for its brass buttons as it had many mills, now of course, converted to flats. The Moorseats Hall is, in today’s world, worth 3 million dollars. Though Jane Eyre is a fictional story written by Charlotte Bronte, but there are many parallels between her life and the novel. Moorseats Hall can be seen as the Moor House in Bronte’s novel. In the novel it was owned by St. John Eyre and his sisters Diana and Mary live there as well. In real life, “Thomas Eyre owned Moorseats Hall“(Mailonline). It is believed that she used his name on purpose in the novel as she named the whole main family of the novel ‘Eyre.’ ‘Moor House in the novel directly reflects growth and change as Jane Eyre becomes rich with her inheritance’ (The Moor House). This stabilizes her life for the first time ever as now she does not need to marry or to work to live. She is free to be an independent mistress. This is important in the novel because Jane consistently shows her feminism shining true through her character. She constant stands up for herself (even to those above her), she says no to a marriage when there is another woman and when there is no love, she constantly speaks her mind and is free with her words, and constantly is emphasizing to her readers her train of feministic thinking with her written thoughts. The Moor House lead the readers through emotional battles with Jane’s feelings, being torn between Mr. Rochester and St. John, having a real family, first coming starved and homeless to leaving rich with a pleasant job, etc. All while these emotional battles are taking place, the Moor house is calm and pleasant with nature and nice weather. This allows Jane the time to think through her thoughts with the reader. 

Works Cited

Mailonline, Jack Wright For. “Historic Mansion That Inspired Jane Eyre Goes on Sale for £3million, with a Helipad and a Pool.” Daily Mail Online, Associated Newspapers, 10 Feb. 2020, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7986947/Historic-mansion-inspir....

The Moor House, https://mypages.unh.edu/janeeyrefinalproject/moor-house. “Real Places In...Jane Eyre.” Novel Getaways, http://www.novelgetaways.co.uk/blog/real-places-injane-eyre.

“Real Places In...Jane Eyre.” Novel Getaways, http://www.novelgetaways.co.uk/blog/real-places-injane-eyre.