Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 in Thornton. An English novelist and poet, Charlotte Bronte was the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived childhood. Her novel Jane Eyre, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, was an immediate success and is remembered for its strong-minded heroine. She also wrote Shirley and Villette, and The Professor was published after her death. She grew up in a parsonage at Haworth in Yorkshire, and her sisters Emily and Anne died young, as did her brother Branwell. She married Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854 and died the following year, probably of complications of pregnancy.
Before and after
- from 3 July 1815 to 3 August 1818Russian Rurik Expedition
- 10 December 1815Birth of Ada Lovelace
- from 1816 to 1858Seminole Wars
- 1816The Year Without a Summer
- 21 April 1816Birth of Charlotte Brontë
- 1 June 1816Founding of Austrian National Bank
- 27 August 1816Bombardment of Algiers
- 19 November 1816Founding of University of Warsaw
- 1817Discovery of cadmium
More in Art, literature & culture
- from 18th century to 19th centuryRomanticism
- 1830Publication of Book of Mormon
- 1890Rise of Art Nouveau
- c. 1900sRise of Expressionism
- 1907Rise of cubism
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
The era
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