The Biography of Charlotte Bronte Essay

A Short Biography on Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte was born on the 21st of April, 1816 at Thornton, Yorkshire. This famous author of "Jane Eyre" was the third daughter and child of the six children of Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte. The Bronte family moved to Haworth in 1820, when Charlotte was only four years of age, where her father, Patrick Bronte, became rector. The major event of Charlotte's young life occurred not long after this move, in 1821, when her mother died, creating a lot of chaos. Her mother died of cancer, and so her sister, Elizabeth Branwell, moved in with the family to take care of Maria's children. Charlotte Bronte did not have a proper loving mother figure to lean on and look up to. In 1824, the two oldest daughters, Elizabeth and Maria were sent to school at Wakefield by their father, and they then transferred to the newly-opened Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge, Lancashire. Charlotte and Emily, her younger sister, joined them at the Clergy Daughters' School. This is the school that later became the model for Lowood School in "Jane Eyre". The school at Cowan Bridge was not in reality as awful as the school depicted in "Jane Eyre", but Charlotte's portrayal of the school was quite accurate. - Many were able to recognize the school almost immediately upon reading the book. Conditions at that time were very bad overall, but the conditions of the school were particularly bad, even by the standards of the time. Not long after Elizabeth and Maria started to attend the Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters' School, they were sent back home because they were so ill. Back home, they both died of consumption in the spring of 1825. This was a shocking experience for the whole family. Patrick brought Charlotte and Emily back as soon as the two older sisters became ill, but the girls never really forgot...

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