Charlotte Bronte During the Industrial Revolution Charlotte Bronte, a controversial novelist, tested the limits with her writing. Britain was undergoing change and Charlotte was major contributor. She touches on a few subjects in her novels such as education, marriage, and women's employment. This essay will examine the life of, evaluate the work of, and examine the impact of Charlotte Bronte. Charlotte Bronte was born April 21, 1819 in Thornton, United Kingdom to Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell. Charlotte was a middle child. She had two older sisters, Maria then Elizabeth, and three younger siblings, a brother, Patrick, and two more sisters, Emily then Anne. Soon after Anne’s birth Charlotte’s mother, Maria, died of cancer on September …show more content…
Gaskell (Gerin). Charlotte’s health and mental stability never fully recovered throughout her life. When Charlotte turned fifteen she was sent for three terms (January 1831 to June 1832) to a boarding school called Roe Head at Mirfield Moor. This was one of the first breakups of this close knit family. When she finished her schooling at Roe Head there was a small break before attending a school in Brussels. Before this final divide of the Bronte family Charlotte wrote to her friend Ellen Nussey on July 2, …show more content…
While at the school she fell in love with the headmaster, which she based some of her novel, Jane Eyre on. After Charlotte’s schooling in Brussels she worked first as a teacher in her old school then as a private governess in two families and lastly as an English teacher in a Brussels school. Charlotte’s middle years were her most productive. She wrote and published several novels. Her first novel, The Professor, was based on her experiences in Brussels. This novel was her first written but was one of the last published. It was not published during her lifetime (“Charlotte Bronte”). Then came Jane Eyre, which was published in 1847. She published this novel via pseudonym (a fictitious name used by mostly women writers in the 1800) using the name Currer Bell. Due to inaccurate speculations about her identity, Charlotte was brought to reveal herself. The novel represents her earlier Angrian fantasies (“Charlotte Bronte”). During 1848 and 1849, within 8 months, Charlotte lost her remaining siblings, Patrick, Emily and Anne. While grieving the loss of her siblings she finished her second to last novel Shirley, which was published in 1849. Charlotte goes to write one more novel, Villette, published in 1853. In this novel she returns to the subject of the Brussels affair. Then marries her father’s curate, The Reverend, Arthur Bell Nichols on June 29, 1854 (Gerin). Shortly after the marriage, Charlotte became pregnant but fell