In August 1824, Patrick sent Charlotte, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Maria died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and a son, Branwell, to be taken care of by her sister, Elizabeth Branwell. In 1820 her family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, on the edge of the moors, where her father had been appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All Angels Church. Early years and education Ĭharlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 in Market Street, Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the third of the six children of Maria (née Branwell) and Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.Ĭharlotte Brontë was the last to die of all her siblings. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

In 1839, she undertook the role of governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth, where the sisters opened a school but failed to attract pupils. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess.

She enlisted in school at Roe Head, Mirfield, in January 1831, aged 14 years. Charlotte Brontë ( / ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t ˈ b r ɒ n t i/, commonly /- t eɪ/ 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

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