Charlotte Bronte 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.ppt

Born: 21 April 1816 Thornton, Yorkshire, England Died: 31 March 1855 (aged 39) Haworth, Yorkshire, England Pen name: Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley Currer Bell Occupation: governess, novelist, poet Genres: novel Notable work(s): Jane Eyre, Villette Her Life Charlotte Bront? was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Bront? sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre. Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Patrick Bront?, an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria née Branwell. In April 1821, the family moved a few miles to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate（教区牧师）. Mrs Bront? died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). Its poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who died of tuberculosis in June 1825 soon after their father removed them from the school on 1 June. In 1854, when she married her father’s curate（助理牧师）, the Rev. Arthur Bell Niahols, her health was already poor. After a few months of marriage a cold which she caught during pregnancy brought about her death on March 31, 1855, at 39, the last of the Bronte children. Her Novelist Sisters Emily Bront? (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights, 1847《呼啸山庄》 Anne Bront? （1820-1849） Agnes Grey, 1847 《艾格尼斯·格雷》 Her works Jane Eyre, 1847, 《简爱》 Shirley,1849,《雪莉》 Villette,1853, 《维莱特》 The Professor, 1857, 《教师》 This is a book about a woman’s life from the age of ten