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  1. 3 days ago · The first Brontë children to be born to rector Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria were Maria (1814–1825) and Elizabeth (1815–1825), who both died at young ages due to disease. Charlotte, Emily and Anne were then born within a time period of approximately four years.

  2. Jun 27, 2024 · Charlotte Brontë (born April 21, 1816, Thornton, Yorkshire, England—died March 31, 1855, Haworth, Yorkshire) was an English novelist noted for Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition. The novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian fiction.

  3. Jun 24, 2024 · Venturing out of Yorkshire for the first time in their lives, the Bronte sisters Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels in 1842, and Charlotte returned for another visit in 1843. The Brontės; Life and Letters (2 vols.) by Clement King Shorter

  4. Jun 27, 2024 · Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847. Widely considered a classic, it gave a new truthfulness to the Victorian novel with its realistic portrayal of the inner life of a woman, noting her struggles with her natural desires and social condition.

  5. Jun 28, 2024 · Charlotte Bronte's writing desk on display at the Bronte Parsonage Museum on February 8, 2012 in Haworth, England. The famous Bronte sisters lived at Haworth Parsonage from 1820 to 1861 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were the authors of many famous and loved books in the English language.

  6. Jun 22, 2024 · Much has been made of the tragic lives of the Brontë children, but it was perhaps their father who suffered most. Patrick was widowed in 1821 when his wife Maria died at the age of 38 of uterine cancer. Their two oldest daughters, Elizabeth and Maria, died of disease in 1825 at the ages of 10 and 11.

  7. Jun 23, 2024 · Emily Brontë (born July 30, 1818, Thornton, Yorkshire, England—died December 19, 1848, Haworth, Yorkshire) was an English novelist and poet who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative work of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors.