Charlotte Bronte

Childhood                                 

·       She was born in the village of Thornton in Yorkshire in England on April 21, 1816.

·       Reverend Patrick Bronte, her father, worked as a priest in the rural community.

·       Her mother Maria Bronte was an intellectual woman who could converse freely with her husband on many topics.

·       Charlotte with her parents and siblings shifted to Haworth surrounded by the sprawling Yorkshire moors when she was four years old.

·       Soon after, at a tender age, she lost her mother to cancer.

·       Charlotte, her sisters Emily and Anne, and brother Branwell were being raised by their father and aunt.

·       When Charlotte was eight years old she was sent to Clergy Daughters’ School in Lancashire, England.

·       Her sisters Maria and Elizabeth contracted tuberculosis there because of the unhygienic conditions.

·       Patrick Bronte prudently brought home his daughters Charlotte and Emily.

·       The trauma lived with Charlotte, this made her describe the squalor, unpalatable food and tyrannical teachers while changing the school’s name to Lowood Institution in her novel Jane Eyre.

·       Their father purchased some toys for them which kindled their creativity.

·       The kids while being home-schooled made wonderful make belief stories with these toy soldiers and wooden village.

·       They created fictitious kingdoms with these toys involving nobles and peasants as protagonists, engaged in wars and adventures.

·       Seated around the dining table, the sisters and brothers made romantic and suspenseful tales involving a charming duke and his lady love.

·       When they missed their late sisters, they wandered the moors together to find solace.

·       When Charlotte was 15 years old, Patrick sent her to Misses Wooler's school.

·       As her father had developed a lung ailment, he felt that formal education would secure his daughter’s financial future.

·       Though a shy Charlotte felt lonely at school, she made two close friends and academically excelled.

·       At sixteen, she returned home to teach her sisters.

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