1816 – 1855
Charlotte Brontee was born in 1816. Her father was a priest and her mother died when the six children were young. So they were left to bring up themselves in a solitary house close to the church. Death in the family, sorrow and tribulation, the struggle to make a way in the world as governess, the necessity of acting as a mother to the family, those all were parts of the intense life of Ch. Brontee.
In 1846 her sisters Ann and Emily and she herself issued poems. They were hardly noticed (Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell – pseudonyms). Then each of the three sisters began to write a novel, “The Professor” of Charlotte remained unaccepted until she had made her name famous by other works. She threw herself into the composition of “Jane Eyre” which was published in 1847. It was a great success. In 1854 she married Arthur Nicholls, a priest. A year later she died.
Works: a novel “The Professor”, “Shirley”, “Vilette”
“Jane Eyre”
Main characters
- Jane Eyre
- Mrs. Reed, her aunt-in-law
- Mr. Rochester
- Mrs. Bertha Mason, his mad wife
- Adela Varens, his ward
- Mr. Mason, Bertha’s brother
- the Reverend St. John Rivers
For then years Jane Eyre lived with her aunt-in-law and was treated very badly. After an honorable carrer at Loward School she became the governess of Adila Varens, the ward of Mr. Rochester. Jane liked Mr. Rochester, the somber and moody man who proposed to her and Jane accepted. At the wedding Mr. Mason declared the existence of an impediment – Mr. Rochester’s mad wife, Bertha Mason. The next morning Jane Eyre left Thornfield Manor and came to the house of St. John Rivers who wanted to marry her. But something kept her from consenting. Jane inherited a large sum from her uncle, Mr. John Eyre. She discovered that her father and St. John’s mother were brother and sister. After some time Jane returned to Thornfield Manor. She found Mr. Rochester blind and married him.
Characteristics
- Gothic elements (horror tale)
- a good deal of melodrama
- Rochester: romantic hero
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