Who is Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ; 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.

She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839, she undertook the role of governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth, where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel,...
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Charlotte Bronte Poems

• The Wood.
  But two miles more, and then we rest!
  Well, there is still an hour of day,
  And long the brightness of the West
  Will light us on our devious way; ...
• Apostasy.
  This last denial of my faith,
  Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard;
  And, though upon my bed of death,
  I call not back a word. ...
• Stanzas.
  If thou be in a lonely place,
  If one hour's calm be thine,
  As Evening bends her placid face
  O'er this sweet day's decline; ...
• Preference.
  Not in scorn do I reprove thee,
  Not in pride thy vows I waive,
  But, believe, I could not love thee,
  Wert thou prince, and I a slave. ...
• The Missionary.
  Plough, vessel, plough the British main,
  Seek the free ocean's wider plain;
  Leave English scenes and English skies,
  Unbind, dissever English ties; ...

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Charlotte Bronte Quotes

• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
• Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
• Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
• No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

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