Charlotte Brontë

The eldest Brontë, whose Jane Eyre wrote a new kind of plain-speaking heroine into English fiction.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1816 – 1855

language

English

region

Haworth, Yorkshire

notable works

Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette

Core Principles & Analysis

• She published as Currer Bell and revealed the sisters' identities only in 1850.
• Jane Eyre (1847) was an immediate sensation.
• She died at thirty-eight, pregnant, within a year of her marriage.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Charlotte Brontë