The novel gave new truthfulness to victorian fiction She later wrote shirley (1849) and villette (1853) Learn more about bronte’s life and work. None of the sisters lived to see age 40, but they left behind profound literary legacies We're the home of the famous brontë sisters Explore the house they grew up in and learn the story of these incredible writers.
Brontë was born on april 21, 1816, in thornton, yorkshire, england Said to be the most dominant and ambitious of the brontës, charlotte was raised in a strict anglican home by her clergyman. Although ostensibly the brontë children lived a lonely childhood, they found plenty to occupy themselves They played complex imaginary games and wrote them down in the form of poems, letters, and handmade books two inches tall. Read a biography on the 19th century authors the bronte sisters responsible for the famous novels 'jane eyre' and 'wuthering heights' Charlotte brontë is one of the few writers whose life has assumed as great a presence in the popular imagination as her works themselves.
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