Charlotte Brontte ( Victorian Era )

Introduction

          Charlotte Brontte was an English novelist and poet . She was a three Brontte sisters .who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature .

     Charlotte Brontte ( 1816- 1855)

   She enlisted in school at Roe Head, misfiled in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters,Emliy and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839, she undertook the role of governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth, where the sisters opened a school but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although her first novel, The proffecor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, jane eyrn, was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.  

Education

    

     In August 1824, Patrick sent Charlotte, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth to the clergyDaughters school  at cowan brige in Lancashire. Charlotte maintained that the school's poor conditions permanently affected her health and physical development, and hastened the deaths of Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who both died of tuberculosis in June 1825. After the deaths of his older daughters, Patrick removed Charlotte and Emily from the school.Charlotte used the school as the basis for Lowood School in , which is similarly affected by tuberculosis that is exacerbated by the poor conditions.

       

Notable Works 

      Jane Eyre (1847)

                   

    

       Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist best known for Jane Eyre (1847), the story of an independent young governess who overcomes hardships while remaining true to her principles. It blended moral realism with Gothic elements. Her other novels included Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853).

   

    Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontte first published in 1847 as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, with Currer Bell (Brontë’s pseudonym) listed as the editor. Widely considered a classic, it gave new truthfulness to the Victorian novel with its realistic portrayal of the inner life of a woman, noting her struggles with her natural desires and social condition.

  Villette ( 1853) 

       

    

    Villette  is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte brontte. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional continetal city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.

     

     Villette was Charlotte Brontte third and last novel published during her life. It was preceded in writing by The profeccor .

 In society 

    

     In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Brontë was persuaded by her publisher to make occasional visits to London, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in more exalted social circles, becoming friends with Elizabeth Gaskell and Harriet Martinuue whose sister Rachel had taught Gaskell's daughters.Brontë sent an early copy of Shirley to Martineau whose home at Ambkeside  she visited. The two friends shared an interest in racial relation and the ablotlise movment recurrent themes in their writings.Brontte was also acquainted with william makspaseThackeray and G.H. Lewes. She never left Haworth for more than a few weeks at a time, as she did not want to leave her ageing father. Thackeray's daughter, writer recalled a visit to her father by Brontte.

        

Religion 

    The daughter of an Irish

Angalican clergyman, Brontte was herself an Anglican. In a letter to her publisher, she claims to "love the Church of England. Her Ministers indeed, I do not regard as infallible personages, I have seen too much of them for that but to the Establishment, with all her faults the profane Anthasican dread excluded  I am sincerely attached."

 

  Conclusion 

    

       Charlotte Brontë was the last to die of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from , a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.