The novel gave new truthfulness to victorian fiction She later wrote shirley (1849) and villette (1853) Learn more about bronte’s life and work. Moral dilemmas, supernatural scenes, and evocative landscapes characterise the first novel charlotte had published. None of the sisters lived to see age 40, but they left behind profound literary legacies 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. The bronte family site explores the life, literature and art of victorian women writers, charlotte bronte and her sisters, emily bronte and anne bronte. 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. Read a biography on the 19th century authors the bronte sisters responsible for the famous novels 'jane eyre' and 'wuthering heights'
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