Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë ('brɒnti/; 21 April 1816 -- 31 March 1855) was an English writer and writer, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria (née Branwell) and her husband Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty), an Irish Anglican reverend. In 1820 the family affected a few miles to the village of Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual minister of religion of St Michael and All Angels Church. Charlotte's mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821, departure five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell.

In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the priesthood Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. The school's poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, for good affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who died of TB in June 1825. shortly after their deaths, her father reaffected Charlotte and Emily from the school. Charlotte later used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.

At home in Haworth vicarage Charlotte acted as "the motherly friend and guardian of her jr. sisters".[citation needed] She and her living siblings — Branwell, Emily, and Anne -- created their own literary fictional worlds, and began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of these imaginary kingdoms. Charlotte and Branwell wrote Byronic stories about their fanciful country, "Angria", and Emily and Anne wrote articles and poems about "Gondal". The sagas they created were elaborate and convoluted (and still exist in partial manuscripts) and provided them with an obsessive interest during childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood.

Between 1831 and 1832 Charlotte continuing her education at Roe Head in Mirfield, where she met her womb-to-tomb friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. Shortly after 1832 she wrote the novelette The Green Dwarf (1833) exploitation the name Wellesley. Charlotte returned to Roe Head as a teacher from 1835 to 1838. In 1839 she took up the first of galore positions as teacher to families in Yorkshire, a career she chased until 1841. Politically a Tory, she preached tolerance rather than revolution. She held high moral principles and, despite her timidity in company, was prepared to argue for her beliefs.

Jane Eyre (ˈɛər/ originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was discharged the following year by harpist & Brothers of New York. Writing for the sphenisciform seabird edition, Stevie Davies describes it as an "influential feminist text" because of its in-depth exploration of a strong female character's feelings.

Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymic character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. The novel contains weather of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is however a novel galore consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sex, religion, and proto-feminism.

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