... the experience of boarding school trauma and its emotional architecture for the child protagonist in an English Catholic private fee-paying girls’ school in that period and to augment historical research on the specific educational practices of The Society. Design/methodology/approach Relying on adult...

...Christine Trimingham Jack Purpose Charlotte Brontë integrated her own and her sisters' traumatic boarding school experiences into her novel, Jane Eyre (1847) as a way of expressing her anger through autobiographical fiction. The aim is to link contemporary research into boarding school trauma...