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Brittney Crisp 3rd term, hour 3 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bron  Biography of Charlotte Bronte 

Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816, and is the third daughter of the Rev. Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria. Her brother Patrick Branwell was born in 1817, and her sisters Emily and Anne in 1818 and 1820. Also1820, the Brontë family moved to Haworth, Maria Brontë dying the following year. In 1824 the four eldest Brontë girls were enrolled as students at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge. The following year Maria and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters, became ill, left the school and died: Charlotte and Emily, were brought home In 1831 Charlotte became a student at the school at Roe Head, but she left school the following year to teach her sisters at home. She returned returns to Roe Head School in 1835 as a governess: for a time her sister Emily attended the same school as a pupil, but became homesick and returned to Haworth. Ann took her place from 1836 to 1837.

In 1838, Charlotte left Roe Head School. In 1839 she accepted a position as governess in the Sidgewick family, but left after three months and returned to Haworth. In 1841 Charlotte became governess in the White family, but left, once again, after nine months. Upon her return to Haworth the three sisters, led by Charlotte, decided to open their own school after the necessary preparations had been completed.

In 1842 Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels to complete their studies. After a trip home to Haworth, Charlotte returned alone to Brussels, where she remained until 1844. Upon her return home the sisters embarked upon their project for founding a school, which happened to be a failure: their advertisements did not get a single response from the public. The following year Charlotte discovered Emily's poems, and decided to publish a selection of the poems of all three sisters: 1846 brought the publication of their Poems, written under the false names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Charlotte also completed The Professor, which was rejected for publication. The following year, however, Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Ann's Agnes Grey were all published, still under the Bell false names.

In 1848 Charlotte and Ann visited their publishers in London, and revealed the true identities of the "Bells." In the same year Branwell Brontë, by now an alcoholic and a drug addict, died, and Emily died shortly after. Ann died the following year.

In 1849 Charlotte, visiting London, began to move in circles, making the acquaintance of Thackeray. In 1850 Charlotte edited her sister's various works, and met Mrs. Gaskell. In 1851she visited the Great Exhibition in London, and attended a series of lectures given by Thackeray. The Rev. A. B. Nicholls, curate of Haworth since 1845, proposed marriage to Charlotte in 1852. The Rev. Mr. Brontë objected violently, and Charlotte, who, though she may have pitied him, was in any case not in love with him, refused him. Nicholls left Haworth in the following year, the same in which Charlotte's Villette was published.

By 1854, however, Mr. Brontë's opposition to the proposed marriage had weakened, and Charlotte and Nicholls became engaged. Nicholls returned as curate at Haworth, and they were married, though it seems clear that Charlotte, though she admired him, still did not love him.

In 1854 Charlotte, while expecting a child, caught pneumonia. It was an illness which could have been cured, but she seems to have seized upon it, consciously or unconsciously, as an opportunity of ending her life, and after a lengthy and painful illness, she died, probably of dehydration

(Bronte, Charlotte. __Jane Eyr__e. New York: arns & Noble Books, 2003.) 

Jane Eyre Jane Eyre was an autobiographical story  Jane Eyre is a novel written by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855).She is considered one of the greatest English writers of the nineteen-century. Set in the Victorian Era, this story is about an orphan seen through the eyes of the main protagonist, Jane Eyre and the narration is her first person point of view.   Jane Eyre, an orphan was brought up by her aunt Mrs. Reed along with her cousins Eliza, Georgiana and John at their home Gates head. Her cousins dislike her aunt because Mrs. Reed treats her like she is unworthy of the attention she it getting. Jane's only hobbies and interests were sewing and reading. The only person in whole house who was kind to her was Bessie, one of the servants. One day when Jane was reading a book John beat her up and because she came back at him, Jane was locked in a Red Room, she was told that in this Red Room was where her uncle’s ghost had been residing. She is exhausted and very scared so she faints and a Doctor, who was brought to see her, heard her sad story and advised her aunt to send her to school. After about a month little Jane is sent to Lowood School, an orphanage where she goes intense work. Jane had met another orphan, Helen Burns, who teaches her to become compassionate and forgiving. She had also followed the footsteps of her teacher Miss. Temple and completed her schooling at Lowood.   After Jane completed her studies, she became a governess for a little girl, Ms.Adele at Thorn  field  Hall, Milicote. Jane is attracted to Mr. Rochester, the master of Thorn field Hall. Life was peaceful at Thorn field Hall, with all her sufferings behind her, except for a mysterious <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,255);">  <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,255);">and terrorizing laughter in the house,  <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,255);">  <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,255);">and a manly servant maid named Grace Poole. Mr. Rochester is also attracted to Jane Eyre and he proposes to her. On the night of their wedding, Jane had found an unknown woman going into her room and then shredding her wedding dress to pieces, which was followed by the mysterious laughter often echoed throughout house. While Mr. Rochester dismisses the whole incident as Jane’s imagination and blames Grace Poole for the shredding, Jane was not completely convinced, had accepted it. On the day, when the wedding vows are to be exchanged, a friend of Mr. Rochester, Richard Mason, stops the wedding on the grounds that Mr. Rochester is already married and his wife alive. Mr. Rochester took Jane to his home and showed her his wife who had become insane on account of her wild life. Jane had recognizes her as the lady who had torn her wedding dress and is the cause of the mysterious laughter echoing in the house. <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,255);"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255,0,255);">With a heavy heart, Jane leaves Thorn field Hall. She loses her clothing <span style="color: rgb(255,0,255);">  <span style="color: rgb(255,0,255);">and all  <span style="color: rgb(255,0,255);"> of her money  <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(10,92,13);"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,255);">was spent and she was without any shelter. Tired and ill, she is given shelter by a clergyman St.John and his sisters; there she takes the name Jane Elliott. Jane started a new life and was the teacher at a local school there. She starts learning Hindustani under the instructions of St.John who wants to marry her and take her to India where he intended to become a missionary. By quirk of fate, St.John finds out that Jane Elliott was actually Jane Eyre and also his cousin. He was going to help get a 20,000-pound inheritance for Jane, from her deceased uncle Thomas Eyre and Jane had divided it among all four cousins equally. Her heart continues to yearn for Mr. Rochester and she again leaves for Thorn field Hall where she finds the house completely burned and Mr. Rochester had gone blind. Jane Eyre married Mr. Rochester and after about two years later Mr. Rochester regained his vision and the couple received son and lived along with Adele happily ever after.

(Bronte, Charlotte. __Jane Eyr__e. New York: arns & Noble Books, 2003.)

Jane Eyre was turned into a TV series and a movie 1999 Jane Eyre Movie

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