Editing Jane Eyre (section)

===Chapters 3–5===
* '''Mr Lloyd:''' A compassionate [[apothecary]] who recommends that Jane be sent to school. Later, he writes a letter to Miss Temple confirming Jane's account of her childhood and thereby clears Jane of Mrs Reed's charge of lying.
* '''Mr Brocklehurst:''' The clergyman, director, and treasurer of Lowood School, whose maltreatment of the pupils is eventually exposed. A religious traditionalist, he advocates for his charges the most harsh, plain, and disciplined possible lifestyle, but, hypocritically, not for himself and his own family. His second daughter, Augusta, exclaimed, "Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look… they looked at my dress and mama's, as if they had never seen a silk gown before."
* '''Miss Maria Temple:''' The kind superintendent of Lowood School, who treats the pupils with respect and compassion. She helps clear Jane of Mr Brocklehurst's false accusation of deceit and cares for Helen in her last days. Eventually, she marries Reverend Naysmith.
* '''Miss Scatcherd:''' A sour and strict teacher at Lowood. She constantly punishes Helen Burns for her untidiness but fails to see Helen's substantial good points.
* '''Helen Burns:''' Jane's best friend at Lowood School. She refuses to hate those who abuse her, trusts in God, and prays for peace one day in heaven. She teaches Jane to trust Christianity and dies of consumption in Jane's arms. [[Elizabeth Gaskell]], in her biography of the Brontë sisters, wrote that Helen Burns was 'an exact transcript' of [[Maria Brontë]], who died of consumption at age 11.<ref>{{cite book |last= Gaskell |first=Elizabeth |title= The Life of Charlotte Brontë |volume= 1 |year=1857 |publisher= Smith, Elder & Co. |page=73 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jzUJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA73}}</ref>