Charlotte Brontë Book summary

Charlotte Brontë was born to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë in Yorkshire, England on April 21, 1816. Charlotte and her siblings were raised by her aunt after her mother passed away when she was five years old. Charlotte and her siblings began to write stories and plays set in their fictional world, Angria, from a very young age. She was sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for the children of clergymen, along with her siblings, Maria, Elizabeth, and Emily, but was later taken out of school after a tuberculosis breakout that resulted in the death of Maria and Elizabeth. Charlotte nursed an ambition of starting a school with her sisters and gave up her work as a governess to bring that dream to fruition. The Brontë's school never really took off but all three sisters found great success as authors. The sisters first wrote under male pen names with the fictional last name of Bell. Charlotte Brontë died in 1855 when she contracted pneumonia during her pregnancy after her marriage to Reverend Arthur Nicholls.