Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816 in Thornton, Yorkshire, the third of six children of the clergyman Patrick Brontë, and grew up at the parsonage in Haworth. Her two elder sisters died after attending the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge, an experience she later drew on for Lowood school in Jane Eyre. With her brother Branwell she invented the imaginary kingdom of Angria and wrote many stories about it. She worked as a teacher and governess, and in 1842 she and Emily went to study in Brussels, where Charlotte later returned to teach; this inspired her novel Villette. In 1846 the sisters published poems as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Jane Eyre (1847), the story of an orphaned governess and her employer, Mr. Rochester, was an immediate success. After the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne in 1848–1849 she wrote Shirley and Villette. In 1854 she married Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate, and she died in 1855, probably during pregnancy.

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Faith: Daughter of an Anglican clergyman. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica