Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816 in Yorkshire. She was the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. During their childhood the sisters, together with their brother Branwell, started writing about an imaginary world which they named Angria.
As an adult Charlotte worked as a governess and she taught her own sisters. Their education complete, the sisters attempted to found a school but the project failed. Charlotte then turned her mind to writing and Jane Eyre was published in 1847 under the pen name ‘Currer Bell’. It was the first of only four novels in her short career. Charlotte married in 1854 and, while pregnant, she contracted pneumonia and died in March 1855 at the age of 38.
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It's based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels
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Though Brocklehurst makes only two appearances in the book, he has a memorable impact on the other characters
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Helen is Jane’s pious devoutly religious best friend at Lowood Institute
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In the story Lucy Snowe travels from England to teach at a girls' school
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The film leaves out much of the novel's plot
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When the book was written Shirley was a male name and would have been very unusual for a woman. Today the opposite is true
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Fieldhead is thought to be based on the Elizabethan manor house, Oakwell Hall, in the village of Birstall, West Yorkshire
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Bertha is a Creole; Rochester married her fifteen years earlier
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It's the capital of the fictitious country of Labassecour
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She's governess to Rochester's young ward, Adele
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