Charlotte bronte biography summary of winston
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English Department, Emeritus
California State University, Long Beach
Fig. 1, portrait by Branwell Brontë of his sisters,
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte (c. 1834)
The "Imp of Satan":
The Vampire Archetype in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre
The academic industry that feeds on the Brontë sisters is enormous. Especially tasty are Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), which until the rise of feminist criticism in the last fifteen to twenty years has in this century taken second place to Emily's one powerful novel. (In the nineteenth century, the situation was generally reversed.)1 My purpose here is not to survey the myriad fruits the Brontë industry has produced, although since my approach is Jungian, a word about the psychological treatment of these two Brontë novels seems appropriate.2 Recently, Linda H. Peterson has summarized the psychoanalytic treatments o
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 beneath the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and bygd the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.
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Charlotte Brontë
Born
Thornton, Yorkshire, England
Died
Haworth, Yorkshire, England
Final Resting Place
St. Michael's and All Saints' Church
Haworth, Yorkshire, England
Education
Clergy's Daughters' School of Cowan Bridge, Lancashire, England
Occupation
Teacher
Poet
Novelist
Relationships
Maria Branwell Brontë (mother, 1783-1821)
Maria Brontë (sister, 1813-1825)
Elizabeth Brontë (sister, 1815-1825)
Branwell Brontë (brother, 1817-1848)
Emily Brontë(sister, 1818-1848)
Anne Brontë (sister, 1820-1849)
Arthur Bell Nicholls (husband, 1819-1906)
Elizabeth Branwell (aunt, 1776-1842)
Elizabeth Gaskell (friend, 1810-1865)
Notable works
Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853)
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