Charlotte Bront?

Charlotte Bront? was the daughter of the curate of Haworth, Yorkshire. Her mother died in 1821, leaving five daughters and a son. Four of the daughters were sent to the boarding-school (of which Charlotte gives her recollections in Jane Eyre), an unfortunate step hastened the death of Charlotte's two elder sisters.

In 1831 - 32 Charlotte Bront? stayed at another boarding-school, from which she returned with a teacher's licence. She became subsequently a governess, and in 1842 went with her sister Emily to study the French language at a school in Brussels, where she was employed as a teacher of English. Back at Haworth in 1846 a volume of verse appeared entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (i. e. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront?). It fell still-born from the press. The Professor, Charlotte's first novel, was refused by several publishers and did not appear until 1857, after her death. Her second novel Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and achieved immediate success. Fresh sorrows now descended on the author. In 1848 Charlotte's brother died; before the end of the same year tuberculosis brought on the death of Emily and shortly after that of Anne. Charlotte alone survived of the six children. Despite her grief she went on writing. In 1849 she produced Shirley, and in 1853 Villette. She married in 1854 and died in 1855 at the age of 39. All her works appeared under the pen-name of Currer Bell. Charlotte' Bront?'s last work is Emma, a fragment of which was published in 1860, long after her death.

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