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Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte. 1816-1855. Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816 in Yorkshire. She is the third born of six children to Reverend Patrick and Maria Branwell Bronte. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte.

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Charlotte Bronte

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  1. Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855

  2. Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816 in Yorkshire. She is the third born of six children to Reverend Patrick and Maria Branwell Bronte. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte

  3. In 1820 Charlotte Bronte’s father was appointed to the position of curate. Therefore the family was relocated to Haworth parsonage. The Bronte’s home

  4. The following year Charlottes’ mother died. Mr. Bronte was left with six young children to raise.

  5. “Speak of the North! A Lonely Moor” Speak of the north! A lonely moor Silent and dark and tractless swells, The waves of some wild streamlet pour Hurriedly through its ferny dells. Profoundly still the twilight air, Lifeless the landscape; so we dream Til like a phantom gliding near A stag bends down to drink the stream.

  6. And far away a mountain zone, A cold, white waste of snow-drifts lies. And one star, large and soft and lone Silently lights the unclouded skies. By Charlotte Bronte

  7. He soon discovered the talent that his children possessed for writing. He then decided to find proper education for his them.

  8. The four eldest daughters (Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, and Emily) were enrolled as pupils of Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge.

  9. After becoming seriously ill with a cough Maria dies in May 1825. Shortly after her death Elizabeth died. Her death was some what controversial. It was said that she was pushed down a flight of stairs after being scolded by a schoolmaster, because she told him that she wasn’t feeling well enough to attend her class.

  10. Charlotte witnessed the tragic accident that happened to her sister. A final tribute to her sister is found in several pages of Jane Eyre.

  11. Jane Eyre I still recoiled at the dread of seeing a corpse. “Helen!” I whispered softly; “are you awake?” She stirred herself, put back the curtain, and I saw her face, pale, wasted, but quite composed; she looked so little changed that my fear was instantly dissipated. “Can it be you Jane?” she asked, in her won gentle voice. “Oh!” I thought, “she is not going to die; they are mistaken; she could not speak and look so calmly if she were.”

  12. I got on to her crib and kissed her: her forehead was cold, and her cheek both cold and thin, and so were her hand and wrist: but she smiled as of old… Chapter 9

  13. Mr. Bronte then pulled Charlotte and Emily from Cowan Bridge, and are then brought home. At the age of nine Charlotte finds herself as a mother figure for Emily, Branwell, and Anne. Charlotte arranges her bedroom into a school room to teach her younger siblings. At age eleven Charlotte and her siblings start a four volume epic tale.

  14. In 1839, Charlotte accepted a position as governess in the Sidgewick family, but left after three months and returned to Haworth. • In 1841, she became governess of the White family, but after nine months left once again.

  15. Publication of Charlottes’ Writings • In 1846, Charlotte discovered Emily’s poems, and decided to publish a selection of the poems from all three sisters. • Charlottes’ The Professor was rejected for publication. • However, her work Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heights, and Anne’s Agnes Grey were all published.

  16. Charlottes’ Works • 1847-Jane Eyre • 1849-Shirley • 1853-Villette • 1857-The Professor • 1925-The Twelve Adventures and Other Stories • 1971-Legends of Angria

  17. Bronte as a Feminist The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, is frequently viewed as the earliest major feminist novel. Although there is not a hint in the book that relates to political, legal, educational, or even intellectual equality between the sexes.

  18. On June 29, 1854 Charlotte married A.B. Nicholls. • On March 31, 1855 Charlotte dies.

  19. After Charlotte’s Death • In 1857, Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Bronte was published, and in June The Professor was published posthumously. • The works from her juvenilia were also published posthumously such as: • The Twelve Adventures and Other Stories • The nineteen volumes of The Shakespeare Head Bronte are the most complete edition of the works of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell. • Legends of Angria

  20. The End… By: Michelle Hertenlehner

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