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Charlotte Brontë

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Some readers have found it remarkable that they could read all the novels of Jane Austen and find no clue to the fact that the author had lived through three of the most momentous events in English history: the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars. Austen deals only with private life.

While Charlotte Bronte was not alive during the era of the Luddite Riots of 1811-1812, her father was; and...

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Charlotte Bront Biographies (5)

Charlotte Brontë

580 words, approx. 2 pages

The English novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) portrayed the struggle of the individual to maintain his integrity with a dramatic intensity entirely new to English fiction.Charlotte Brontë... Read more

Charlotte Bronte

17,326 words, approx. 58 pages

Charlotte Brontë's fame and influence rest on a very slender canon of published works: only four novels and some contributions to a volume of poetry. Her reputation may be explained in part by th... Read more

Charlotte Bronte

12,180 words, approx. 41 pages

Charlotte Brontë's short fiction comprises the profuse writings that she produced--in collaboration with her brother, Branwell, and their sisters, Emily and Anne--during their sheltered childhood... Read more

Charlotte Bronte

7,021 words, approx. 24 pages

Although Charlotte Brontë is one of the most famous Victorian women writers, only two of her poems are widely read today, and these are not her best or most interesting poems. Like her contempora... Read more

Charlotte Brontë

17,572 words, approx. 59 pages

Biography EssayCharlotte Bronte's fame and influence rest on a very slender canon of published works: only four novels and some contributions to a volume of poetry. Her reputation may be explained in ... Read more