Charlotte Brontë was born April 21, 1816, at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England.

Charlotte Brontë was the third of six children of the Rev. Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell.

In 1820 the family moved to Haworth. The following year, Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer leaving her children to the care of her sister Elizabeth Branwell.

In 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters (Maria, Elizabeth and Emily) to the Clergy Daughters” School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.

In 1831, Charlotte entered the Roe Head school in Mirfield. She would come back to this institution as a teacher from 1835 to 1838.

In 1839, and until 1841, she became the governess to various families in Yorkshire.

In 1842, she travelled with her sister Emily to Brussels to enroll in a pensionnat run by Constantin Heger and his wife. There, Charlotte taught English.

In 1846, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne published a collection of poetry under aliases with no much success… they only sold two copies.

“Currer Bell” was Charlotte”s alias, and she even published her first two novels under that assumed name. This caused a lot of mystery as to who was this Currer Bell, and what was his gender.

In 1854, Charlotte Brontë married Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father”s curate.

She died of tuberculosis March 31, 1855, only nine months after she got married and during her first pregnancy.

She published four novels:

Jane Eyre (1847)
Shirley (1849)
Villette (1853)
The Professor (published posthumously in 1857).