Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë
• born April 21, 1816, Thornton, Yorkshire,
England
• died March 31, 1855, Haworth,
Yorkshire
 English novelist noted for Jane Eyre, the eldest of three
Brontë sisters.

 She was the daughter of Patrick Brontë, an Irish

Anglican clergyman and Maria Branwell Brontë who
died when she was only five years old.
 Life

In 1824 Charlotte and Emily attended Clergy Daughters’ School at

Cowan Bridge which she was talking about in her book years later.
In 1831 she was sent to Miss Wooler’s school at Roe Head where
she stayed a year. After that in 1832 she came back home to
teach her sisters but two years later she returned to school as a
teacher.
Later, as she wanted to improve her family’s position, she spend
some months as governess with the Whites at Upperwood House.
In 1842 Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels to improve
qualification in French and acquire some German
After that she attempted to start a school but she failed
because no pupils were attracted to distant Haworth.
In autumn of 1845 Charlotte found some poems by Emily, which
led to publication of a volume of Poems by Currer, Ellis and
Acton Bell which were pseudonyms to preserve secrecy and
avoid the special treatment.
She published Jane Eyre on October 16, 1847 and had
immediate success, far greater than books her sisters published
the same year.
Afterdeath of her siblings Charlotte completed Shirley
which appeared in October and in January 1853 she
published Villette.
In 1995-2004 a three volume edition of her letters was
published, The Letters of Charlotte Bronte
Novels

 1847 – Jane Eyre

 1849 – Shirley
 1853 – Villette
 The Professor
 Emma (unfinished)
Source

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-
Bronte/Jane-Eyre-and-other-novels