Although her first novel, The Professor, was never published in her life time (posthumous publication circa September 22nd 1856) Jane Eyre was immediately successful and has since been regarded as one of the most famous novels in the English language. Their father, a clergyman, undertook their education but the sisters seemed largely to have educated themselves by reading extensively and writing stories from an early age.Ĭharlotte became a governess and began to write to earn money. The landscape around the parsonage, the lonely rolling moors and wild wind, influences all the Brontë sisters deeply.Charlotte, the oldest of the three Brontë sisters, together with Emily and Anne formed part of a great literary Irish family.įormal education was discontinued when two of the other sisters in the family died from tuberculosis. Charlotte was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman who had moved with his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820. She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England. A little, plain, provincial, sickly-looking old maid', is how George Lewes described Charlotte Brontë to George Eliot.
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