Jane Eyre (2011 film) chair all day. Jane and Helen become close friends, but Helen later dies of consumption (tuberculosis). Eight years later, Jane, now eighteen, leaves Lowood and takes up a post with Alice Fairfax of Thornfield Hall. She will be a governess to Adèle Varens, a young French girl who is Mr. Rochester's ward. When she first arrives at Thornfield, a gloomy, isolated mansion, Jane mistakes Mrs. Fairfax for her employer, but she finds out that she is only the housekeeper for her absent master. While Jane is walking into town to post a letter, a horse passes her and throws its
Lowood, Queensland Lowood, Queensland Lowood is a town and locality in the Somerset Region in south-east Queensland, Australia. The town is on the Brisbane River, west of the state capital, Brisbane and north of Ipswich. In the 2011 census, Lowood had a population of 3,336 people. Lowood was established as the first terminus of the Brisbane Valley branch railway in 1884 and the town grew from the subdivision around the new station. The name is derived from the "low woods" of brigalow in the Lowood area, as opposed to the taller trees elsewhere in the Brisbane Valley. Lowood Post Office opened on