Biography
Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) 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 is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the gender neutral pen name Currer Bell. Jane Eyre went on to become a success in publication, and is widely held in high regard in the gothic fiction genre of literature.
She enlisted in school at Roe Head, Mirfield, 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 of 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 under 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 by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.
Charlotte Brontë was the last to die of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.
Filmography
all 25
Movies 21
Writer 20
TV Shows 4
National Theatre Live: Jane Eyre (2015)
Jane Eyre (2011)
Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)
Jane Eyre (2006)
Jane Eyre (1997)
Jane Eyre (1996)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Sargasso: A Caribbean Love Story (1991)
Jane Eyre (1983)
Jane Eyre (1973)
Jane Eyre (1973)
Jane Eyre (1970)
Bedi Bandavalu (1968)
Jane Eyre (1968)
Jane Eyre (1961)
Jane Eyre (1957)
The Orphan Girl (1956)
Sangdil (1952)
Jane Eyre (1952)
Jane Eyre (1949)
Jane Eyre (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Jane Eyre (1934)
Orphan of Lowood (1926)
Jane Eyre (1910)
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1816-04-21
Deathday1855-03-31 (38 years old)
Birth PlaceThornton, United Kingdom
ReligionAnglicanism
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RelationshipsArthur Bell Nicholls (1854-06-29 - 1855-03-31)
FatherPatrick Brontë
MotherMaria Branwell
SiblingsAnne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Elizabeth Brontë, Maria Brontë
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
ResidencesCity of Brussels, Belgium, Haworth, United Kingdom
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