Charlotte Bronte

1818 - 1848 *

oldest of the three famous Brontė sisters, author of one of the most famous novels in the English language.

Charlotte, the oldest of the three Brontė sisters, together with Emily and Anne formed part of a great literary Irish family. Formal education was discontinued when two of the other sisters in the family died from Tuberculosis. Their father, a clergyman, undertook their education but the sisters seemd largely to have educated themselves by reading extensively and writing stories from an early age. Charlotte became a governess and began to write to earn money. Her first novel, The Professor, was never published; however, Jane Eyre was an immediately sucessful and has since been regarded as one of the most famous novels in the English Language. Vilette was based on her experiences in Brussels.

Charlotte's writings were considered to be unconventional and not appropriate for a women writier of that time. She wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell.

Charlotte outlived her sisters. She eventually died while pregnant, within a few months of her marriage.

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English writer noted for her novel JANE EYRE (1847), sister of Anne Brontė and Emily Brontė. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In their works they described love more truthfully that was common in Victorian age England. In the past 40 years Charlotte Brontė's reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age.

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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE (1816-1855), EMILY (1818-1848), and ANNE (1820-1849), English novelists, were three of the six children of Patrick Bronte, a clergyman Of the Church of England, who for the last forty-one years of his'life was perpetual incumbent of the parish of Ha worth in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Patrick Bronte was born at Emsdale, Co. Down, Ireland; on the iyth of March 1777. His parents werc'!of the peasant class, their original name of Brunty apparently having been changed by their s... [read entire biography]

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