Jane Eyre students fall ill when a typhus epidemic strikes; Helen dies of consumption in Jane's arms. When Mr. Brocklehurst's maltreatment of the students is discovered, several benefactors erect a new building and install a sympathetic management committee to moderate Mr. Brocklehurst's harsh rule. Conditions at the school then improve dramatically. The name Lowood symbolises the "low" point in Jane's life where she was maltreated. After six years as a student and two as a teacher at Lowood, Jane decides to leave. Her friend and confidante, Miss Temple, also leaves after getting married. She advertises her services as a governess. A housekeeper
Shire of Lowood Shire of Lowood The Shire of Lowood is a former local government area in the south-east of Queensland, Australia. It existed between 1912 and 1916. From around 1890, increasing settlement in and around the town of Lowood resulted in ongoing agitation to establish a new shire. An alternative proposal was to relocate the office of the Shire of Walloon away from Marburg and into Lowood on the grounds that the majority of the population of the Shire of Walloon used Lowood as their market town and that Lowood had the advantage of being on the railway line (which Marburg was