Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature. Her novel Jane Eyre (1847), published under the pen name Currer Bell, was an immediate success and remains one of the most famous English novels.
Lived at the same time
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Life events
Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, the third of six children of the clergyman Patrick Brontë; the family moved to Haworth in 1820.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCharlotte attended the harsh Clergy Daughters' School, whose conditions contributed to the deaths of her two elder sisters and inspired Lowood School in Jane Eyre.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCharlotte was a pupil and later a teacher at Margaret Wooler's school at Roe Head, where she met her lifelong friends Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCharlotte and Emily traveled to Brussels to study languages at the Pensionnat Heger; Charlotte's unrequited attachment to Constantin Heger later informed Villette.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCharlotte, Emily, and Anne jointly published a volume of poems under their pseudonyms; it sold only two copies.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgJane Eyre, published under the pen name Currer Bell, was an immediate critical and commercial success.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWithin nine months Charlotte lost her brother Branwell and sisters Emily and Anne, leaving her the last surviving Brontë sibling.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCharlotte's final completed novel, Villette, drew on her Brussels years and was praised for its psychological depth.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCharlotte married her father's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, at Haworth church.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCharlotte Brontë died at Haworth Parsonage, three weeks before her 39th birthday, while pregnant; her death was attributed to tuberculosis, likely complicated by severe pregnancy sickness.
Source: en.wikipedia.org