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About the Author

Born in 1816, Charlotte was the eldest of the famous trio of Bronte sisters, and the longest surviving in a family haunted by death. After their mother died in 1821, Charlotte acted as a maternal figure to her siblings (Emily, Anne, and their brother, Branwell,) and led them in their literary pursuits, which they started at a young age. As a young woman Charlotte worked as a governess and spent time teaching English in Brussels. In 1846, along with her sisters, she published a book of poems under the name Currer Bell, a pseudonym she would use for later publications, including her greatest work, Jane Eyre, which was published in 1847 to great success. Having survived all her siblings, who all died between 1848 and 1849, Charlotte would write two other novels, Shirley in 1849, and Villette in 1853, before dying at the age of thirty-eight while pregnant with her first child.