NAME: Charlotte Brontë
OCCUPATION: Author, Poet
BIRTH DATE: April 21, 1816
DEATH DATE: March 31, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH: Thornton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
PLACE OF DEATH: Haworth, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
NICKNAME: Currer Bell
AKA: Charlotte Brontë
Said to be the most dominant and ambitious of the Brontës, Charlotte was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after her mother and two eldest siblings died. A writer all her life, Brontë published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell. Her other novels included Shirley and Villette.
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