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Charlotte Nicholls (née Brontë; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /), [1] 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.
Brass plaque on family vault of Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë at St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth. Emily's health was probably weakened by the harsh local climate and by unsanitary conditions at home, [70] where water was contaminated by run off from the church's graveyard. [c] Branwell died suddenly, on Sunday, 24 September 1848.
The extent of Charlotte Brontë's feelings for Héger were not fully realised until 1913, when her letters to him were published for the first time. Héger had first shown them to Mrs. Gaskell when she visited him in 1856 while researching her biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, but she concealed their true significance. These letters ...
Brontë family, an English literary family that included: Anne Brontë (1820–1849), novelist and poet; Branwell Brontë (1817–1848), painter and poet; Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), novelist and poet; Elizabeth Brontë (1815–1825) Emily Brontë (1818–1848), novelist and poet; Maria Brontë (1814–1825) Patrick Brontë (1777–1861 ...
Branwell Brontë referred to the guytrash in his unpublished writing in December 1837, predating Charlotte Brontë's reference: 'A Gytrash is a Spectre neither at all similar to the Ghosts of those who once were alive nor to fairys and silvan Creatures nor to Demons and the powers of the air[.] It does not confine its forms to the Human and ...
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Bronte (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t / BRONT) is a ... Although named for English novelist Charlotte Brontë [5] the town name is pronounced as one syllable: "brahnt". [6 ...