Name of Author: Charlotte Brontë
Born: April 21, 1816
Died: March 31, 1855 (at the age of 38)
Pen Name: Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley, Currer Bell
Spouse(s): Arthur Bell Nicholls
Works: The Spell, The Secret, Lily Hart ,The Foundling, Albion and Marina, Tales of the Islanders, Jane Eyre, Villette
LEARN MORE ABOUT CHARLOTTE BRONTË:
• She is born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England.
• 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.
• Charlotte Brontë was the last to die of all her siblings.
• She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.
• Charlotte was advised to give up writing— because she was a woman.
• Charlotte’s first novel was rejected by every publisher in England.
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