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Charlotte Brontë: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls • Currer Bell
Born April 21, 1816 • England
Died March 31, 1855 (aged 38) • Haworth • England
Notable Works “Jane Eyre” • “Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell” • “Shirley: A Tale” • “The Professor” • “Villette”
Notable Family Members sister Emily Brontë • sister Anne Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë
Oil painting by Branwell Bronte showing Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Bronte standing together, with visible cracks and damage across the canvas.
John Abbott, Orson Welles, and Joan Fontaine in a black-and-white scene from the 1943 film Jane Eyre, with Fontaine in a bridal veil and gown beside stone walls.
Anne Brontë
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
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Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author
Portrait of Emily Bronte in profile, with curly dark hair, wearing a green dress with a white ruffled collar, from a painting by Branwell Bronte.
Emily Brontë
English novelist and poet
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Robert Graves
British writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë
English poet and novelist
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Helen Maria Williams
English writer
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Horace Smith
English writer
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Malcolm Lowry
British novelist
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
British author
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Radclyffe Hall
British author
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John Wain
British critic and writer
Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
British writer

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