by rebeljap on November 4th, 2009

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Does anyone know anything about the author charlotte bronte other than she wrote Jane Eyre

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  • by iwnit on November 5th, 2009

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    "Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, in 1816. She was the third of six children. Her father was Patrick Brontë, an Irish Anglican clergyman, and her mother was Maria Branwell. In April 1821, the family moved a few miles to Haworth. Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate there. Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821. She left her five daughters and a son to be looked after by her sister Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. She described it as Lowood School in her novel Jane Eyre. The sisters were Emily, Maria and Elizabeth. The poor conditions of the school permanently affected Charlotte's health according to her. She thought it led to the early deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815). They died of tuberculosis in June 1825 soon after their father took them from the school on 1 June.

    At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other living children (Branwell, Emily and Anne) began writing about the lives and struggles of the dwellers of their imaginary kingdoms. Charlotte and Branwell wrote Byronic stories about their country — Angria &mdash. Emily and Anne wrote articles and poems about theirs Gondal.

    Charlotte went to school at Roe Head, Mirfield, from 1831 to 1832. There she met her lifelong friends, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. In 1833 she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf under the name of Wellesley. Charlotte returned as a teacher from 1835 to 1838. In 1839 she became a governess to various families in Yorkshire, a career she had until 1841. In 1842 she and Emily travelled to Brussels to enroll in a pensionnat (boarding school) run by Constantin Heger (1809 – 1896) and his wife Claire Zoé Parent Heger (1814 – 1891). In return for this, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. Their time at the pensionnat was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt, died in October 1842. Charlotte returned alone to Brussels in January 1843 to be a teacher at the pensionnat. This stay was not happy. She became lonely, homesick and deeply attached to Constantin Heger. She finally returned to Haworth in January 1844 and later used her time at the pensionnat as the inspiration for some of The Professor and Villette."
    Source and further information:
    http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB

    Further information:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB

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  • by cold_cut on November 4th, 2009

    cold_cut

    darn it!! i always foget things when its my turn to help, now whats the place called..here we go
    female-ancestors.com/daughters/bronte.htm
    I lived not far from where they lived :)

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