William Carus Wilson on Carus Wilson. Brocklehurst is presented as a hypocrite: In the year of "Jane Eyre"'s publication Carus Wilson reportedly took legal advice with a view to suing for defamation, but desisted on receiving a letter of explanation and apology from the author. However, the novel was published as the work of the pseudonymous Currer Bell, and it is not clear how many of its first readers of the book would have been in a position to make the connection between Lowood and Carus Wilson's foundation. In a letter to her publisher W.S. Williams, Charlotte describes overhearing an elderly clergyman talk
Charlotte Jane Charlotte Jane Charlotte Jane was one of the First Four Ships in 1850 to carry emigrants from England to the new colony of Canterbury in New Zealand. The ship is remembered in the name of a road, Charlotte Jane Quay, in the port town of Lyttelton. "Randolph", "Cressy", and "Charlotte Jane" together carried an estimated 790 passengers. In addition, about another 60 worked their passage on the ships or deserted and disembarked. The first of the vessels to arrive was "Charlotte Jane" in Lyttelton on 16 December 1850 in the morning. "Randolph" followed that afternoon. "Sir George Seymour" arrived on