BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË.

Biography

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816. In 1820 her family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth. Her mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and a son Branwell to be taken care of by her sister, Elizabeth Branwell.

 In August 1824, Patrick Brontë sent Charlotte, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Charlotte maintained the school's poor conditions permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth ,who died of tuberculosis in June 1825. After the deaths of her older sisters, her father removed Charlotte and Emily from the school. Charlotte used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.

 In 1842 Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to enrol at the boarding school run by Constantin Heger and his wife Claire Zoé Parent Heger. Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music.

Charlotte became pregnant soon after the marriage but her health declined rapidly." Charlotte died with her unborn child on 31 March 1855, aged 38. Her death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis,.

Her first novel, the professor was published in 1857.Another novel was not finished, because she started witting it when she was near her dead There novel was finished by other writers, the most famous version was by clave.

 Novels

• Jane Eyre published 1847
• Shirley, published in 1849
• Villette, published in 1853
• The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, submitted at first along with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, then separately, and rejected in either form by many publishing houses, published posthumously in 1857
• Emma, unfinished; Charlotte Brontë wrote only 20 pages of the manuscript, published posthumously in 1860. In recent decades, at least two continuations of this fragment have appeared:
•  Emma, by "Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady", published 1980; although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge, the actual author was Constance Savery.
•  Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan, published 2003.

 

Poetry

• Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell(1846)
• Selected Poems of The Brontës, Everyman Poetry (1997)