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Where did Charlotte Brontë go to school?

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In 1824 Charlotte BrontĂ« attended Clergy Daughters’ School in Lancashire, England. Her experiences there, including the harsh discipline and terrible food, influenced the portrayal of Lowood Institution in her novel Jane Eyre (1847). In 1842 Charlotte and her sister Emily went to Brussels as pupils to improve their French and acquire some German. Her experiences there inspired the characters and incidents in her novel Villette (1853).