Charlotte Bronte

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3. Charlotte Brontë (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 have
become classics of English literature. She published her best
known novel, Jane Eyre, under the pen name Currer Bell.

5.  Charlotte was born in Thornton, west of
Bradford in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, in 1816, the third of the six
children of Maria (née Branwell) and
Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty
or Prunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman.
In 1820 her family moved a few miles to
the village of Haworth, where her father
had been appointed perpetual curate of
St Michael and All Angels Church. Maria
died of cancer on 15 September 1821,
leaving five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth,
Charlotte, Emily and Anne plus a son,
Branwell, to be taken care of by her
sister, Elizabeth Branwell.

7.  Juvenilia
 The Young Men's Magazine, Number 1 – 3
(August 1830)
 The Spell
 The Secret
 Lily Hart
 The Foundling
 The Green Dwarf
 My Angria and the Angrians
 Albion and Marina
 Tales of the Islanders
 Tales of Angria (written 1838–1839 – a
collection of childhood and young adult
writings including five short novels)
 Mina Laury
 Stancliffe's Hotel
 The Duke of Zamorna
 Henry Hastings
 Caroline Vernon
 The Roe Head Journal Fragments

9. Novels
Jane Eyre, published 1847
Shirley, published in 1849
Villette, published in 1853
The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, submitted at first along
with Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, then separately, and
rejected by many publishing houses, published posthumously in 1857

10. Emma, unfinished; Charlotte Brontë wrote only 20 pages of the
manuscript, published posthumously in 1860.
In recent decades at least two continuations of this fragment have
appeared:
Emma, by "Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady", published 1980;
although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge, the actual
author was Constance Savery.
Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan, published 2003

11. Before the publication of Villette
Charlotte received a proposal of marriage
from Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's
curate, who had long been in love with
her. She initially turned down his
proposal and her father objected to the
union at least partly because of Nicholls's
poor financial status. Charlotte meanwhile
was increasingly attracted to Nicholls and
by January 1854 she had accepted his
proposal. They gained the approval of her
father by April and married in
June. They took their honeymoon in
Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland.

13.  Charlotte became pregnant soon after her wedding,
but her health declined rapidly and, according to
Gaskell, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual
nausea and ever-recurring faintness." She died, with
her unborn child, on 31 March 1855, aged 38. Her
death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis,
but many biographers suggest that she died from
dehydration and malnourishment due to vomiting
caused by severe morning sickness or hyperemesis
gravidarum. There is also evidence that she died from
typhus, which she may have caught from Tabitha
Ackroyd, the Brontë household's oldest servant, who
died shortly before her. Charlotte was interred in the
family vault in the Church of St Michael and All Angels
at Haworth.