Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bronte

• 1816-1855

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• Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816 in
  Yorkshire. She is the third born of six children
  to Reverend Patrick and Maria Branwell Bronte.

Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte
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• In 1820 Charlotte Brontes father was appointed
  to the position of curate. Therefore the family
  was relocated to Haworth parsonage.

The Brontes home
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• The following year Charlottes mother died. Mr.
  Bronte was left with six young children to raise.

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Speak of the North! A Lonely Moor

• Speak of the north! A lonely moor
• Silent and dark and tractless swells,
• The waves of some wild streamlet pour
• Hurriedly through its ferny dells.
• Profoundly still the twilight air,
• Lifeless the landscape so we dream
• Til like a phantom gliding near
• A stag bends down to drink the stream.

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• And far away a mountain zone,
• A cold, white waste of snow-drifts lies.
• And one star, large and soft and lone
• Silently lights the unclouded skies.
• By Charlotte Bronte

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• He soon discovered the talent that his
  children possessed for writing. He then decided
  to find proper education for his them.

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• The four eldest daughters (Maria, Elizabeth,
  Charlotte, and Emily) were enrolled as pupils of
  Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge.

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• After becoming seriously ill with a cough
  Maria dies in May 1825. Shortly after her death
  Elizabeth died. Her death was some what
  controversial. It was said that she was pushed
  down a flight of stairs after being scolded by a
  schoolmaster, because she told him that she
  wasnt feeling well enough to attend her class.

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• Charlotte witnessed the tragic accident that
  happened to her sister. A final tribute to her
  sister is found in several pages of Jane Eyre.

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Jane Eyre

• I still recoiled at the dread of seeing a
  corpse. Helen! I whispered softly are you
  awake? She stirred herself, put back the
  curtain, and I saw her face, pale, wasted, but
  quite composed she looked so little changed that
  my fear was instantly dissipated. Can it be you
  Jane? she asked, in her won gentle voice. Oh!
  I thought, she is not going to die they are
  mistaken she could not speak and look so calmly
  if she were.

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• I got on to her crib and kissed her her
  forehead was cold, and her cheek both cold and
  thin, and so were her hand and wrist but she
  smiled as of old
• Chapter 9

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• Mr. Bronte then pulled Charlotte and Emily
  from Cowan Bridge, and are then brought home. At
  the age of nine Charlotte finds herself as a
  mother figure for Emily, Branwell, and Anne.
  Charlotte arranges her bedroom into a school room
  to teach her younger siblings. At age eleven
  Charlotte and her siblings start a four volume
  epic tale.

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• In 1839, Charlotte accepted a position as
  governess in the Sidgewick family, but left after
  three months and returned to Haworth.
• In 1841, she became governess of the
• White family, but after
• nine months left once
• again.

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Publication of Charlottes Writings

• In 1846, Charlotte discovered Emilys poems, and
  decided to publish a selection of the poems from
  all three sisters.
• Charlottes The Professor was rejected for
  publication.
• However, her work Jane Eyre, Emilys Wuthering
  Heights, and Annes Agnes Grey were all
  published.

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Charlottes Works

• 1847-Jane Eyre
• 1849-Shirley
• 1853-Villette
• 1857-The Professor
• 1925-The Twelve Adventures and Other Stories
• 1971-Legends of Angria

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Bronte as a Feminist

• The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, is
  frequently viewed as the earliest major feminist
  novel. Although there is not a hint in the book
  that relates to political, legal, educational, or
  even intellectual equality between the sexes.

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• On June 29, 1854 Charlotte married A.B. Nicholls.

• On March 31, 1855 Charlotte dies.

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After Charlottes Death

• In 1857, Mrs. Gaskells Life of Charlotte Bronte
  was published, and in June The Professor was
  published posthumously.
• The works from her juvenilia were also published
  posthumously such as
• The Twelve Adventures and Other Stories
• The nineteen volumes of The Shakespeare Head
  Bronte are the most complete edition of the
  works of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell.
• Legends of Angria

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• The End
• By
• Michelle Hertenlehner