The Bronte Sisters

The Bronte Sisters

1 The Bronte Sisters:

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

2 . the Lives of the Bronte Sisters

2.1 they came from a large family of Irish origin.

2.2 their father was a clergyman at Haworth Yorkshire’

2.3 when they were young, the Bronte Sisters weresent to a school for clergymen”sdaughters.

2.4 as they grew up, the sisters worked either as teacher or goveress in some private families.

2.5 in 1842, Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels to improve their foreign languages in order to open up a school of their own.

2.6 social life at Haworth was very limited for the Bronte Sisters.

2.7 when winter came, the Bronte children usually stayed at home.

2.8 in 1845, at Charlotte’s initiative, a volume of poetry entitled Poems by Currer , Ellis and Action Bell (the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily and Anne) was published at their own expense. 3 Misfortunes

3.1 Bronwell, the only boy in the family, the beloved of the sisters, died in September 1848.

3.2 Emily died of consumption in 1848.

3.3 Anne died of consumption in the summer in 1849.

3.4 Charlotte died a few months later in pregnancy.

4 Charlotte Bronte

4.1 Features

4.11 Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

4.12 Charlotte loves the beauty of nature but despises worldly ambition and success, In her mind, man’s life is composed of perpetual battle between sin and virtue, good and evil.

4.13 Allher heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.

4.14 She is a writer of realism combined with romanticism.

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