Scotland is significant to Jane Eyre because the Anglo-Scottish border is where Helen Burns claims to be from (Brontë, 82). For this, though, I chose to focus on the Abbotsford House, which was the house of one of Brontë's greatest inspirations in writing whom she visited in 1850 after Jane Eyre was published. Scott was an instituion for the Brontë sisters, inspiring a lot of the romanticism in the novels they would write in adulthood. This house, the home of Sir Walter Scott, is the kind of house we were all probably picturing when reading about Gateshead or Thornfield. This house is a reflection of the class and social mobility seen in Jane Eyre as its construction almost sent Scott into bankruptcy, which he wrote himself out of later on. The house itself, much like the novel, was progressive for its time with early forms of gas lighting.
Sources:
https://www.scottsabbotsford.com/visit/the-house
https://www.walterscottclub.com/blog/sir-walter-scott-and-the-brontes
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