Jane Eyre: The Sisterhood

About Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë was born in Yorkshire in 1816. As a child she was sent to boarding school where two of her sisters died; she was subsequently educated at home with her younger siblings Emily Branwell and Anne. As an adult Charlotte worked as a governess and taught in a school in Brussels. Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell and was followed by Shirley (1848) Villette (1853) and The Professor (posthumously published in 1857). In 1854 Charlotte married her father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died in March of the following year.