Witch Week reference to Lowood School from Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", although in "Witch Week" the miserable conditions of the school are often used for comic effect. In almost every version of the book published, the class the story focuses on has a different name, according to the age group the publishers were aiming the book at the time. For instance: Early in 1992 the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card reviewed reissues of several Diana Wynne Jones novels. He wrote concerning "Witch Week": Thus it is that underneath what seems to be rather low comedy—brooms that demand to be taken riding
Jane Eyre (2011 film) news of which has so shocked his mother, Sarah Reed, that it has brought on a stroke. Apparently, Mrs. Reed has been asking to see Jane. Jane returns to Gateshead, where her dying aunt shows her a letter from Jane's paternal uncle, John Eyre, asking for her to go to live with him in Madeira. He wants to adopt Jane and make her a beneficiary in his will. Jane notices that the letter was dated three years ago. Mrs. Reed admits to telling John Eyre that Jane had died of typhus at Lowood School. Mrs. Reed tells Jane that she