Charlotte Bronte(1816-1885) one of the three sisters of the Bronte family who later became novelists,was born in Haworth ,Yorkshire.Her father was an Irish-born Anglican clergyman. As a child, Charlotte was sent to a clergy daughters' boarding school(of which Charlotte gives her recollection in the Lowood of Jane Eyre).In 1831-1832 she was at Miss Wooler's School at Roehead, whither she returned as a teacher in 1835-1838.She was subsequently a governess ,and in 1842 went with her sister Emily to study languages at a school in Brussels, where during 1843 she was employed as a teacher. In the next year Charlotte was back at Haworth, and in 1846 she had a volume of verse published together with her sisters Emily and Anne.Charlotte's first novel The Professor,which was refused by publishers, was not published until 1857.Her Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and achieved immediate success. In 1849 she produced Shirley, and in 1853 she published Villette which was founded on her memories of Brussels; both stories,as well as Jane Eyre, appeared under the name Currer Bell.Together with Shirley and Villette, Jane Eyre represents an important advance in the treatment of women in English fiction.
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