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Charlotte Bronte [1816-1855] ENG
Ranked #219 in the top 380 poets
Votes 83%: 218 up, 45 down

`A little, plain, provincial, sickly-looking old maid`, is how George Lewes described Charlotte Brontë to George Eliot. She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England. Charlotte was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman who had moved with his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820. The landscape around the parsonage, the lonely rolling moors and wild wind, influences all the Brontë sisters deeply.p

Charlotte, the oldest of the three Brontë sisters, together with Emily and Anne formed part of a great literary Irish family. 

Formal education was discontinued when two of the other sisters in the family died from Tuberculosis. 

Their father, a clergyman, undertook their education but the sisters seemd largely to have educated themselves by reading extensively and writing stories from an early age. 

Charlotte became a governess and began to write to earn money. Although her first novel, The Professor, was never published in her life time (Posthumous publication circa September 22nd 1856) Jane Eyre was and was immediately sucessful and has since been regarded as one of the most famous novels in the English Language. Vilette was based on her experiences in Brussels.

Charlotte`s writings were considered to be unconventional and not appropriate for a women writers of that time. She wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell.

Charlotte outlived her sisters. She eventually died while pregnant, within a few months of her marriage.

(Bibliography taken in part from LiteratureClassics.com )

Victorian, Gothic, Romanticism

YearsCountryPoetInteraction
1771-1832
SCO
Walter Scott
→ influenced Charlotte Bronte
1788-1824
ENG
George Gordon Byron
→ influenced Charlotte Bronte
1792-1822
ENG
Percy Bysshe Shelley
→ influenced Charlotte Bronte
1818-1848
ENG
Emily Jane Bronte
→ sister of Charlotte Bronte
1820-1849
ENG
Anne Bronte
→ sister of Charlotte Bronte
1832-1888
USA
Louisa May Alcott
← influenced by Charlotte Bronte


WorkLangRating
Life
eng
59
Parting
eng
4
Regret
eng
4
Winter Stores
eng
4
Frances
eng
3
On The Death Of Anne Brontë
eng
3
Apostasy
eng
2
Evening Solace
eng
2
Pleasure
eng
2
Gilbert
eng
1
Passion
eng
1
Presentiment
eng
1
Stanzas
eng
1
The Letter
eng
1
Mementos
eng
0
Pilate`s Wife`s Dream
eng
0
Preference
eng
0
Speak of the North! A Lonely Moor
eng
0
The Garden
eng
0
The Missionary
eng
0
The Parlour
eng
0
The Teacher`s Monologue
eng
0
The Welcome Home
eng
0
The Wife`s Will
eng
0
The Wood
eng
0

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