Charlotte Bronte by Ольга Попутникова https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj an English poet en-us 2019-03-22 19:26:07 UTC 2023-02-14 01:59:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Some facts about Charlotte Bronte olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344451295 1. BRONTË WAS JUST 5 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE LOST HER MOTHER.
Maria Branwell Brontë was 38 when she died in 1821 of ovarian cancer (or, it's been suggested, of a post-natal infection), leaving her husband, Patrick Brontë, and their six young children behind. In the years after Maria died, Patrick sent four of his daughters, including Charlotte, to a boarding school for the daughters of clergy members. Brontë later used her bad experiences at this school—it was a harsh, abusive environment—as inspiration for Lowood Institution in Jane Eyre. As an adult, Bronte mentioned her mother (who was also fond of writing) in a letter, saying: "I wish she had lived and that I had known her."
2. BRONTË HAD BEEN WRITING POETRY AND STORIES SINCE HER YOUTH.
Though one of her boarding school report cards described her abilities as "altogether clever for her age, but knows nothing systematically," Brontë was a voracious reader during her childhood and teen years, and she wrote stories and staged plays at home with her siblings. With her brother Branwell, especially, she wrote manuscripts, plays, and stories, drawing on literature, magazines, and the Bible for inspiration. For fun, they created magazines that contained everything a real magazine would have—from the essays, letters, and poems to the ads and notes from the editor.
3. SHE WORKED AS A TEACHER AND GOVERNESS BUT DISLIKED IT.
In her late teens and early twenties, Brontë worked on and off as a teacher and governess. In between writing, she taught at a schoolhouse but didn't like the long hours. She also didn't love working as a governess in a family home. Once, in a letter to a friend, she wrote, "I will only ask you to imagine the miseries of a reserved wretch like me, thrown at once into the midst of a large family … having the charge given me of a set of pampered, spoilt, and turbulent children, whom I was expected constantly to amuse as well as instruct." She quickly realized she wasn't a good fit for these caretaking jobs, but she later used her early work experiences as inspiration for passages in Jane Eyre.
4. BRONTË DEALT WITH A LOT OF LITERARY REJECTION.
When she was 20 years old, Brontë sent the English Poet Laureate Robert Southey some of her best poems. He wrote back in 1837, telling her that she obviously had a good deal of talent and a gift with words but that she should give up writing. "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation. To those duties you have not yet been called, and when you are you will be less eager for celebrity. You will not seek in imagination for excitement," Southey responded to her. The Professor, Brontë’s first novel, was rejected nine times before it was finally published after her death.
5. SHE USED THE MALE PSEUDONYM CURRER BELL.
In 1846, Brontë paid to publish a book of poetry containing poems she and her sisters Emily and Anne had written. The three sisters used male pseudonyms—Charlotte was Currer Bell, Emily was Ellis Bell, and Anne was Acton Bell. (The book sold two copies.) Brontë also used the Currer Bell pseudonym when she published Jane Eyre—her publishers didn't know Bell was really a woman until 1848, a year after the book was published!
6. JANE EYRE WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS.
In 1847, British publishing firm Smith, Elder & Co published Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. From the start, the book was a success—one critic called it "the best novel of the season"—and people began to speculate about who Currer Bell was. But some reviewers were less impressed, criticizing it for being coarse in content, including one who called it "anti-Christian." Brontë was writing in the Victorian period, after all.
7. SHE DIED AT 38 YEARS OLD—WHILE PREGNANT.
In June 1854, Brontë married a clergyman named Arthur Bell Nicholls and got pregnant almost immediately. Her pregnancy was far from smooth sailing though—she had acute bouts of nausea and vomiting, leading to her becoming severely dehydrated and malnourished. She and her unborn child died on March 31, 1855.

]]> 2019-03-23 13:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344451295 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454112 2019-03-23 13:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454112 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454173 2019-03-23 13:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454173 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454489 "If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."-Charlotte Bronte]]> 2019-03-23 13:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454489 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454684 "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."-Charlotte Bronte]]> 2019-03-23 13:43:44 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454684 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454889
"Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star."- Charlotte  Bronte]]> 2019-03-23 13:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344454889 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344455436 2019-03-23 13:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344455436 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457211 2019-03-23 14:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457211 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457312 "God did not give me my life to throw it away."-Charlotte Bronte]]> 2019-03-23 14:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457312 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457468 "Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." ~ Charlotte Bronte]]> 2019-03-23 14:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457468 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457693 "If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed." -Charlotte Bronte]]> 2019-03-23 14:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344457693 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344458207 2019-03-23 14:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344458207 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344458470 Charlotte Brontë ( 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.]]> 2019-03-23 14:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344458470 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344459303 2019-03-23 14:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344459303 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344460208 2019-03-23 14:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344460208 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344470835 Charlotte Bronte`s birthplace]]> 2019-03-23 16:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344470835 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344471420 2019-03-23 16:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344471420 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344471578 2019-03-23 16:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344471578 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344482791 2019-03-23 18:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344482791 olgapoputnikova https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344483053 Check yourself.]]> 2019-03-23 18:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/olgapoputnikova/78jimz95hwkj/wish/344483053