Charlotte Bronte

Author · 132 books

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. See also Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë. Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved a few miles to Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family. In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, a new school for the daughters of poor clergyman (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). The school was a horrific experience for the girls and conditions were appalling. They were regularly deprived of food, beaten by teachers and humiliated for the slightest error. The school was unheated and the pupils slept two to a bed for warmth. Seven pupils died in a typhus epidemic that swept the school and all four of the Brontë girls became very ill - Maria and Elizabeth dying of tuberculosis in 1825. Her experiences at the school deeply affected Brontë - her health never recovered and she immortalised the cruel and brutal treatment in her novel, Jane Eyre. Following the tragedy, their father withdrew his daughters from the school. At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children—Branwell, Emily, and Anne—continued their ad-hoc education. In 1826 her father returned home with a box of toy soldiers for Branwell. They would prove the catalyst for the sisters' extraordinary creative development as they immediately set to creating lives and characters for the soldiers, inventing a world for them which the siblings called 'Angria'. The siblings became addicted to writing, creating stories, poetry and plays. Brontë later said that the reason for this burst of creativity was that: 'We were wholly dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyments and occupations of life. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition.' After her father began to suffer from a lung disorder, Charlotte was again sent to school to complete her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period (1833), she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. The school was extremely small with only ten pupils meaning the top floor was completely unused and believed to be supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young lady dressed in silk. This story fascinated Brontë and inspired the figure of Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre. Brontë left the school after a few years, however she swiftly returned in 1835 to take up a position as a teacher, and used her wages to pay for Emily and Anne to be taught at the school. Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family—partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity. Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding, but her health declined rapidly and, according to biographer Elizabeth Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855.

Series

Books

Jayne Eyre

The Big Bronte Book

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

جین ایر جلد یک

Τζέιν Έυρ

Stancliffe's Hotel

The Complete Novels, Jane Eyre, the Professor, Shirley, Agnes Grey, Villette, the Tenant of Wildfell Hall Wuthering Heights

Tales of Angria

Damas oscuras

Deep, Dark & Unsettling

Jane Eyre

Anne of Green Gables Deluxe Collection / Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights

Jane Eyre di Charlotte Brontë

100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

Juvenilia

Lettres choisies de la famille Brontë

Shirley

The Green Dwarf

Chcę wszystko

The Bronte BBC Radio Drama Collection

Dark Ladies

Collected Poems of the Brontë Sisters

The Works of the Brontë Sisters

Selected Letters

Jane Eyre (Les Classiques en Manga)

Tales of the Islanders

Autolouange et autres poèmes

50 Classic Romance Books

Dada

Die starken Frauen der Weltliteratur - 26 Romane in einem Band

Napoleon and the Spectre

Classic British Love Stories

The Falling into Theory 2e and The Dead and Jane Eyre

Four Classic Novels Abridged

Shirley [Christmas Summary Classics]

The Secret & Lily Hart

Collezione Storie senza tempo

Life

High Life in Verdopolis

Gotico femminile

Villette

The Poems of Charlotte Bronte

100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

Bronte Sisters

Antología de poetas inglesas del siglo XIX (Alba Poesía nº 12)

Villette

Vitorianas Macabras

Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters

The Brontes' Christmas

Jane Eyre

Jane Slayre

Crown Classics Poetry Bronte Sisters

Emma

Se construire avec patience - Lettres de liberté et de déter

Venus en las tinieblas

Noches de pesadilla

Jane Eyre

Mina Laury y Hotel Stancliffe

Jane Eyre - The Graphic Novel

Guía literaria de Londres

Jane Eyre

Como fósforos de Lucifer

The Spell

Works of Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Shirley, Vol. 1 of 3

The Professor

Shirley II

Caminar invisible. Cartas sobre «Jane Eyre», 1847-1854

The Search After Hapiness

The Brontë Sisters

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol

Villette I

Lettere

Shirley, Vol. 2 of 3

Brontes

Mina Laury