Victorian

Charlotte Brontë

1816–1855

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, and grew up in the parsonage at Haworth with her sisters Emily and Anne and her brother Branwell, all of whom wrote from childhood. After years as a teacher and governess she published, with her sisters, the pseudonymous Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846). Jane Eyre (1847) was an immediate success; Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853) followed. She outlived all her siblings, married in 1854 and died the following year.

Sources: Bibliomancer editorial note, written from standard reference facts (dates, places, principal works).