Their deaths affected Charlotte greatly, as she suddenly became the eldest child in a motherless family and was forced her into a position of leadership and responsibility. Charlotte used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.Īfter the deaths of his older daughters, Patrick removed Charlotte and Emily from the school. Charlotte was of the belief that the school’s poor conditions permanently affected her health and physical development, and also hastened the deaths of both Maria and Elizabeth, who died of tuberculosis in June 1825.

In August 1824, when Charlotte was eight years old, her father sent her with Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Elizabeth Branwell stayed with the family until her death in 1842, because Patrick’s attempts to remarry after his wife’s death were unsuccessful. Patrick was appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All Angels Church in the village of Haworth in 1820.Ĭharlotte’s five siblings, four sisters Maria, Elizabeth, Emily, Anne and brother Branwell, were left to the care of her sister, Elizabeth Branwell, when their mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821. She was the third of the six children of Maria and Patrick Brontë, who was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Early Life and FamilyĬharlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 in Market Street, Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

She died during pregnancy of hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

Her most famous works are Jane Eyre, Villette and The Professor, which was published after her death in 1855. She originally published her works under the name of Currer Bell, along with her sisters who also had pseudonyms, but they admitted to them in 1848 and were celebrated in London literary circles. She was the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

Notable Works: Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1849), Villette (1853), The Professor (1857)Ĭharlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) is one of the most famous Victorian women writers and poets.

Born: April 21, 1816, Thornton, England.

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