Charlotte Bronte Research Paper

On April 21st of 1816 in Thornton West Yorkshire United Kingdom, Patrick and Maria Bronte gave birth to their third child of six, Charlotte Bronte. The five years following her birth year contained the births of the last of the Bronte children, a brother, and two sisters. In the same five year span, the family relocated to Hawthorn United Kingdom, where Bronte would grow up and eventually die, Mrs. Bronte passed away the following year. Four years later, Patrick Bronte, now raising five children in the absence of their mother, enrolled the four eldest daughters into the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge. After only a year, the two oldest sisters became ill and passed away. Charlotte and the only other remaining sister at the school unenrolled and

In 1838 Bronte resigned from the Roe Head school and accepted a position as a private governess for a family, but after only three months she returned home to Hawthorn. She continued the familiar pattern by accepting a governess position for a second family, but once again, left after only nine short months. Bronte traveled to Brussels to complete her education, she remained there until 1844. After her return home, the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Ann, attempted to open their own school. They were unsuccessful in their affairs. As a result of the failed school launch and discovery of a collection of Emily’s poems, Bonte decided to publish a collection of poems contributed to by all three sisters. They published under the pen names, Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Soon after Bronte wrote a work named, The Professor, which did not pass the publication stage. In response to this rejection, however, a year later each sister created an independent work that was published and successfully received by the public. Emily’s being Wuthering Heights, Ann's being Agnes Grey, and Charlotte’s being Jane