charlotte-bronte.jpgTHE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816 –1855)

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Charlotte Brontë in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six , to Maria and her husband Patrick Brontë, an Irish Anglican . In 1820 the family moved miles to the village of Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate of St Michael and All Angels Church. Charlotte's mother of cancer in 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her Elizabeth Branwell.
In August 1824, Charlotte with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. The school's poor conditions affected her health and physical development and the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who died of in June 1825. Soon after their deaths, her father removed Charlotte and Emily the school. Charlotte later used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.
At home in Haworth Charlotte and her surviving siblings – Branwell, Emily, and Anne – created their own literary fictional worlds, and chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of imaginary kingdoms. Charlotte and Branwell wrote stories about their imagined country, "Angria", and Emily and Anne wrote articles and about “Gondal” (another imaginary world of fantasy). The stories they created were and prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood.
Between 1831 and 1832 Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head in Mirfield. after 1832 she wrote the novel "The Green Dwarf" (1833) using the name Wellesley. Charlotte returned to Roe Head as a teacher from 1835 to 1838. In 1839 she the first of many positions as to families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued 1841.
In 1842 Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels in a boarding school. In return for board and , Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. Their time at the school was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt who the family to look after the children after the death of their mother, died in October 1842. Charlotte returned to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the school. Her second stay was not happy; she was lonely, and attached to Constantin Heger, her supervisor. She returned to Haworth in January 1844 and used the time spent in Brussels as the for some experiences in other books: "The Professor" and "Villette".
In May 1846 Charlotte, Emily and Anne self-financed the publication of a collection of poetry under the assumed names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Although only two copies of the collection of poetry , the sisters continued writing for publication and began their first , continuing to use their when sending manuscripts to potential publishers.
Charlotte's first manuscript, "The Professor", did not secure a publisher, she was heartened by an encouraging response from Smith, Elder & Co of Cornhill, who expressed an interest in any longer works which "Currer Bell" might wish to send. Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography", .

Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB