THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË

BACKGROUND INFO

• Born in 1816 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England.
• 3rd daughter of the Rev. Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria.
• Maria and Elizabeth, her older sisters became ill and died in 1825.
• Her brother Patrick Branwell was born in 1817. Her sisters Emily and Anne in 1818 and 1820.
• In 1820 the Brontë family moved too Haworth. Mrs. Brontë dying the following year.

EARLY LIFE

• Charlotte was said to be most ambitious & dominant of the Brontë's.
• Raised in a strict American home.
• Raised by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after
• her mother and two eldest siblings died.
• She and her sister Emily attended the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge.

EARLY LIFE

• While there with her sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Emily they suffer the harsh regime, cold and poor food.
• June 1825 Charlotte and her sisters were finally taken away from the school for good.
• Her two eldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth died of consumption; the poor conditions while at the school were largely to blame.
• The experience of Cowan Bridge and the loss of her sisters had an affect on Charlotte.

EARLY LIFE

• While there with her sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Emily they suffer the harsh regime, cold and poor food.

BOOKS WRITTEN

• She wrote and published her first book, Jane Eyre, in 1847
• Jane Eyre was an immediate hit.
• She followed it with the success of Shirley in 1848
• And Vilette in 1853

DEATH AND LEGACY

• The deaths of the Brontë siblings are almost as notable as their literary legacy.
• Charlotte's brother, Branwell, and Emily died in 1848, and Anne the following year.
• In 1854, Charlotte married Arther Bell Nicholls.
• Charlotte died March 31, 1855 during her pregnancy.

DEATH AND LEGACY

• Charlotte died in Haworth, Yorkshire, England. Due to pneumonia.
• April 4th 1855 Charlotte Bronte is laid to rest in the family vault at Haworth church.

CITATIONS.

• "Charlotte Brontë. " 2014. The Biography Channel website. Feb 24 2014
• Cody, David Charlotte Brontë. "A Brief Biography," Victorian web Nagoya University, 15 February 2008. Web. 24, 2014.