Charlotte Bronte Research Paper

On April 21, 1816, future poet and novelist Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England and was the third of six children of Rev. Patrick and Maria Brontë. In 1820 the family moved to Haworth and here Charlotte’s mother passed away, leaving five daughters and one son under the care of Charlotte’s aunt, Elizabeth Branwell. In 1824, Charlotte and her sisters Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth were enrolled in Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. There, the two eldest, Maria and Elizabeth, contracted tuberculosis and were forced to return home. Tragically, they both died from the illness. Charlotte and Emily were brought home. When one speaks of Charlotte Brontë, her other novelist sisters are, without fail, also brought up in the conversation. It is said that these sisters began to write in 1826 when their father brought home a box of wooden soldiers for their brother, Branwell. Inspired by the toys, Charlotte and her brother wrote of a fictional world called Angria and her two sisters wrote poetry on the imaginary world of Gondal. Even at the age of ten, Charlotte’s writing can be considered greatly detailed and well-written. The siblings wrote sagas of all sorts of adventures and characters in these two worlds though all the manuscripts found are incomplete.

Here she wrote the novella, The Green Dwarf, under the pseudonym Wellesley. Her sisters needed her, however, and so Charlotte returned home in 1835 to teach her siblings. She returned to Roe Head in 1835 not as a pupil, but as a governess. Her sister, Emily, was enrolled in the school for a period of time but she left due to homesickness. Instead, Anne was put in her place and was under the tutelage of Charlotte for two years. After the completion of Anne’s education in 1838, Charlotte decided to leave Roe Head and search for other governess