An otherwise remarkably observant child, Charlotte remembered little of her mother when, as an adult, she read letters that her mother had written to her father during their courtship, she wrote to a friend on February 16, 1850, “I wish she had lived and that I had known her.” Though the loss of their mother certainly made a difference in the lives of all the Brontë children, the younger ones-Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne-seem not to have been seriously affected by her death. She died of cancer at the age of thirty-eight.
She had given birth to six children in seven years: Maria (1813), Elizabeth (1815), Charlotte (1816), Patrick Branwell (1817), Emily (1818), and Anne (1820). Charlotte's mother, Maria Branwell Brontë, died when her daughter was only five years old. Her father, Patrick Brontë, was the son of a respectable Irish farmer in County Down, Ireland. Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĬharlotte Brontë was born on April 21, 1816, in the village of Thornton, West Riding, Yorkshire. In one sense, the book is a period piece about the narrow spheres of British governesses in another sense, it foreshadows a brand of feminism that would not take shape for another one hundred years. The book's enduring attraction to critics and readers alike has much to do with the ways its headstrong narrator, the heroine Jane Eyre, both satisfies and challenges the social and literary conventions of the Victorian era. Public sensation in its own day and has scarcely diminished in popularity since. Charlotte Brontë's reputation rests mostly on her 1847 novel Jane Eyre, a book that was a Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846)Ĭharlotte Brontë was one of three famous sisters (Anne and Emily Brontë being the other two) who each contributed significantly to the literary landscape of the nineteenth century.
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