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Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell.
Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her sister Elizabeth Branwell.
Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters; Emily, Maria and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Its poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth , who died of tuberculosis in May of 1826 soon after they were removed from the school.
Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head, Mirfield, from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period , she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley.
In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily and Anne published a joint collection of poetry under the assumed names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Although the book failed to attract interest (only two copies were sold), the sisters decided to continue writing for publication and began work on their first novels.
Her novels were deemed coarse by the critics. Much speculation took place as to who Currer Bell really was, and whether Bell was a man or a woman.
In June 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls.
It is suggest that Charlotte died from typhus that she may have caught from Tabitha Ackroyd, the Brontë household's oldest servant, who died shortly before her.
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Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.
Bibliography
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(1999)
Jane Eyre (Broadview Literary Texts) Charlotte Brontë
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(1997)
Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
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(1995)
Charlotte Bronte's High Life in Verdopolis
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(1969)
The search after hapiness [sic]: A tale;
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(1857)
The Professor
Personal edit
- Legal name: Charlotte Brontë
- Birthdate: April 21, 1816
- Birthplace: Thornton, Yorkshire, England
- Nationality: English
- Gender: Female
- Official Website: http://www.bronte.info/
- Genres: Fiction (Realistic), Poetry
- Date of death: March 31, 1855 (aged 38)
- Burial location: Haworth, Yorkshire, England
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"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."
Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell.
Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her sister Elizabeth Branwell.
Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters; Emily, Maria and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Its poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth , who died of tuberculosis in May of 1826 soon after they were removed from the school.
Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head, Mirfield, from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period , she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley.
In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily and Anne published a joint collection of poetry under the assumed names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Although the book failed to attract interest (only two copies were sold), the sisters decided to continue writing for publication and began work on their first novels.
Her novels were deemed coarse by the critics. Much speculation took place as to who Currer Bell really was, and whether Bell was a man or a woman.
In June 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls.
It is suggest that Charlotte died from typhus that she may have caught from Tabitha Ackroyd, the Brontë household's oldest servant, who died shortly before her.
- quoted from Wikipedia
