![]() ![]() ![]() Returning to the parsonage at Haworth, the sisters tried to open their own school but could not attract pupils. In Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with the married headmaster, an experience she used as the basis for her last novel, Villette (1853). Meanwhile, she and Emily formed a plan to open their own school, and in 1842 the sisters went to Brussels to study languages and school administration. ![]() From 1835 to 1838, Charlotte taught in a girls’ school. After their sisters’ deaths, Charlotte and Emily were brought home, where they and their remaining siblings, Anne and Branwell, amused themselves by making up elaborate stories about fantastical worlds. The cheap school featured bad food, cold rooms, and harsh discipline, all reflected in the image of the boarding school portrayed in Jane Eyre.Ĭharlotte’s two oldest sisters died of illnesses while at school. ![]() Her mother died when she was 5, and Charlotte, her two older sisters, and her younger sister Emily, were sent to Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. The book, about the struggles of an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess, was an immediate popular success.īrontë was born in 1816, one of six siblings who grew up in a gloomy parsonage in the remote English village of Haworth, on the Yorkshire moors. Charlotte Brontë, the book’s author, used the pseudonym Currer Bell. On October 16, 1847, Jane Eyre is published by Smith, Elder and Co. ![]()
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