Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bronte

• Sarah DAngelo

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Thesis Statement

• In spite of her lack of direction given in her
  life, Charlotte Bronte grew up to become a
  masterful author during the Victorian age.

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Birth

• 1816
• 3rd daughter

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Family

• Rev. Patrick Bronte Maria
• Mother died in 1821
• 3rd of 6 kids
• 1 brother, 4 sisters
• 2 oldest sisters died _at_
• early age

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Childhood

• created imaginary kingdoms
• Branwell's toy soldiers
• create continuing stories of fantasylands

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Early School Life

• Pupil at the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan
  Bridge
• 2 sisters died, other 2 came home

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School

• Pupil at the school at
• Roe Head(1831)
• Left year later to teach
• sisters _at_ home
• Returned in 1835 as
• a governess
• 1838, Charlotte left
• Roe Head School

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More School Work

• 1839 position as governess in the Sidgewick
  family
• Left 3 months later returned home
• 1841 governess in the White family
• Left 9 months later

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Big Hopes

• three sisters, decided to open their own school
• 1842 Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels to
  complete their studies
• trip home to Haworth, Charlotte returned alone to
  Brussels, until 1844.
• Charlotte attempted by herself, and failed in 1844

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Love?

• While at Brussels, she fell in love with a
  married man, M. Heger, the owner of the
  Pensionnat Heger, a girls' school, where
  Charlotte and Emily were pupils and Charlotte
  later taught

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Books Written By C. Bronte

• POEMS BY CURRER, ELLIS AND ACTON BELL (1846)
• THE PROFESSOR based on her experiences of
  teaching in Brussels (never published)
• Jane Eyre, October 1847 (immediate success)
• SHIRLEY (1848) and VILLETTE (1853)

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Marriage

• 1854 Charlotte married her father's curate,
  Arthur Bell Nicholls
• Father didnt approve _at_ first, then gave in
• Fourth to propose to her

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Death

• 1854, pregnant, caught pneumonia and didnt do
  anything about it
• March 31, 1855 in Haworth, Yorkshire

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Jane Eyre

• October 1847
• Currer Bell
• Victorian Age

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Jane Eyre Part One

• Began in Gateshead
• Both parents died
• Only relative left, uncle, died soon after
• Living with cruel Aunt Reed
• Jane disliked, because she was treated better by
  her Uncle then his own kids
• Georgianna, Eliza, John
• Bessie

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Jane Eyre Part Two

• Red room, haunted?
• Jane became ill
• Apothecary sends Jane
• to Lowood school
• Evil headmaster
• Illness swept school, he left
• Became teacher
• Became governess in Thornfield
• Love with employer, Rochester

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Jane Eyre Part Three

• Saves from fire, unknown
• Rochester proposes to Jane
• Previously married
• Psychotic wife
• Jane leaves town, heartbreak
• Poor, until man takes her in
• Cousins?!

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Jane Eyre Part Four

• Unknown uncle dead
• 20,000 pounds
• Own cousin falls in love
• Proposes
• She loves only one man
• Back to Thornfield to search for him
• Town of Ferndean
• Married happy life

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Early Victorian Age

• 1837-1901
• Bad working/living conditions
• Working classes organized movements trying to
  improve them
• Chartists

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Middle Late Victorian Age

• 1848, cotton goods, metal, woolens
• Wealthy productive
• Population Grew
• Center for banking, insurance, shipping
• Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South
  Africa
• Husbands worked, women stayed home

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Inspired Life

• Charlottes life, Jane Eyre were similar
• Used own life to create masterpiece
• Ugly childhood Amazing novel

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Video Clip

• http//www.cwrl.utexas.edu/bump/E324/video/JE/jan
  eey01.mov