British novelist and poet (1816-1855)
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She published Jane Eyre under a man's name in 1847, and the novel's raw intensity — an orphan heroine who refuses to shrink — made it a scandal and then a cornerstone. The pseudonym fooled everyone until it didn't.
Charlotte Brontë was the third of six children born to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë on 21 April 1816. Her mother died when she was five, and at eight she was sent to Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge, where conditions were so grim her two elder sisters fell ill and died; she blamed the place for her own frail health and later turned it into Lowood School in her fiction. She taught, worked briefly as a governess, then went to Brussels in 1842 to study at the Heger Pensionnat, where she fell for the married director, Constantin Heger — a doomed attachment that fed both The Professor…
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Have you yet read Miss Martineau’s and Mr. Atkinson’s new work, Letters on the Nature and Development of Man? If you have not, it would be worth your while to do so.
Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in it about three hours, and I must say I was more struck with it on this occasion than at my first visit.
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey.
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
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