CHARLOTTE BRONTE (Brontë) - ENGLISH NOVELIST AND POET Sticker

CHARLOTTE BRONTE (Brontë) - ENGLISH NOVELIST AND POET. Charlotte Brontë (/ˈʃɑːrlət ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/;1 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of ...