Bronte, Charlotte

Charlotte Bronte was one of the most controversial women writers of her time. Here are a few quotes.

A coming-of-age story or novel is memorable because the character undergoes adventures and/or inner turmoil in his/her growth and development as a human being. Some characters come to grips with the reality of cruelty in the world--with war, violence, death, racism, and hatred--while others deal with family, friends, or community issues.

Jane Eyre (1847) was written by Charlotte Bronte. This romantic novel is about an orphaned young girl, who goes on to become a governess and teacher. She eventually finds love and a home for herself.

When was the book published? Who are the main characters? Who wrote the novel? Test your knowledge about one of the greatest novels of that period.

Read "The Life of Charlotte Brontë," by Elizbeth Gaskell.

Long ago, the lives of the Brontë sisters--Charlotte, Emily and Anne--reached mythic proportions, as they compelled fanatical devotion. However, as Lucasta Miller shows in The Bronte Myth, many of the cultural memories of the sisters have very little to do with reality.

Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816, and died in 1855. In the intervening years, she wrote a collection of poems and three novels: "The Professor," "Jane Eyre" (1847), and "Villette" (1852). A fourth novel was left unfinished upon her death. Read more about Charlotte Brontë's life and works.

In the study of 19th-century Victorian literature, women writers like Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Shelley are fixtures in our imagination; but who are the other women writers of the period? What did they accomplish? Read more about 19th-Century Women Writers.

The home to Charlotte and her siblings, as well as her inspiration for Jane Eyre.