The watershed moment in Charlotte Bronte’s debut novel, Jane Eyre, is when protagonist Eyre starts schooling. She starts seeking solace in dolls and books. She is mistreated by her kith and kin, except a kind uncle who, unfortunately, has since died. She was orphaned at a tender age, after typhus claimed her parents’ lives. The featured central character is called Jane Eyre. The first edition of her first book was initially published on October 1847, titled Jane Eyre and the standalone novel is shelved under the literary fiction (especially British literature), Gothic fiction, romance, historical fiction (particularly Victorian), and feminism genres. There are over 2,170 editions of Bronte’s debut novel, which she originally published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Nevertheless, Bronte debuted in the late 1840s. She went by the names Currer Bell, Lord Charles Albert, and Florian Wellesley.Ī number of Charlotte Bronte’s were produced posthumously, some of them as recently as early 2000s.
Bronte, who coauthored collections with her siblings namely Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte, adopted various pseudonyms during her writing career.
At the time of her premature death, she was still pregnant. She is a notable figure in the context of European literature and particularly Victorian literature.Ĭharlotte Bronte, who died of suspected tuberculosis or possibly typhus –the issue is controversial– in her late thirties, authored several standalone novels, an omnibus, collections, and nonfiction work. During her time, she was an acclaimed novelist-cum-poet, educator, and doubled up as a governess. Bronte was born in April 1816 in Thornton upon West Yorkshire, in the UK, and passed away in March 1855. Charlotte Bronte, who lived between the early and mid-nineteenth century, was an English woman of letters.
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