yīng guó zuòzhělièbiǎo
xià luò · lǎng Charlotte Bronte
yīng guó hàn nuò wēi wáng cháo  (1816niánsìyuè21rì1855niánsānyuè31rì)

wài guó jīng diǎn outland biblejiǎn · ài Jane Eyre》

yuèdòuxià luò · lǎng Charlotte Brontezài小说之家dezuòpǐn!!!
夏洛蒂·勃朗特
   lǎng , Charlotte Bronte, 1816 1855, yīng guó xiǎo shuō jiāài · lǎng zhī jiě。 1816 nián 4 yuè 21 chū shēng zài yīng lán běi yuē jùn shì jué de cūn xià luò de zuò pǐn zhù yào miáo xiě pín de xiǎo chǎn zhě de fǎn kàng fèn dǒushǔ bèi chēng wéi gèng wéi shǒu de chū de pài 。《 jiǎn · àishì de chǔnǚ zuò shì dài biǎo zuòzhì jīn réng shòu dào guǎng zhě de huān yíng
  
   xià luò · lǎng 1816 nián shēng yīng guó běi de xiāng cūn shī jiā tíng qīn zǎo shì suì de xià luò bèi sòng jìn suǒ zhuān shōu shén zhí rén yuán de shàn xìng gòu héng héng wén qiáo xué xiàozài shēng huó tiáo jiàn 'è liè de liǎng jiě jiě suō bái yīn rǎn shàng fèi bìng 'ér xiān hòu shì xià luò mèi mèi 'ài huí dào jiā xiāngzài huāng liáng de yuē jùn shān guò liǎo tóng nián。 15 suì shí jìn liǎo xiǎo jiě bàn de xué xiào shū nián hòu yòu zài zhè xué xiào dāng jiào shīhòu lái céng zuò jiā tíng jiào shīdàn yīn néng rěn shòu guì rénkuò xiǎo jiě duì jiā tíng jiào shī de shì fàng liǎo jiā tíng jiào shī de móu shēng zhī céng suàn bàn xué xiàowèicǐ zài de zhù xià 'ài jìn xiū rán 'ér yóu méi yòu rén lái jiù xué xiào méi néng bàn chéngdàn shì zài xué de jīng liǎo biǎo xiàn de qiáng liè yuàn wàng shǐ tóu shēn wén xué chuàng zuò de dào
  
   xià luò · lǎng chū shēng yīng guó běi yuē jùn de háo qīn shì dāng shèng gōng huì de qióng shī qīn shì jiā tíng zhù xià luò · lǎng páiháng sānyòu liǎng jiě jiěliǎng mèi mèi liǎng mèi mèi 'ài · lǎng 'ān 'ēn · lǎng shì zhù míng zuò jiāyīn 'ér zài yīng guó wén xué shǐ shàng cháng yòu lǎng sān jiě mèizhī chēng
  
   xià luò · lǎng de tóng nián shēng huó hěn xìng。 1821 nián 5 suì shí qīn biàn huàn 'ái zhèng shì qīn shōu hěn shǎoquán jiā shēng huó jiān yòu liángháo shì qióng xiāng rǎng de shān nián yòu de xià luò mèi men zhǐ néng zài zhǎo yóu wánhǎo zài qīn shì jiàn qiáo shèng yuē hàn xué yuàn de shēngxué shí yuān cháng cháng jiào shūzhǐ dǎo men kàn shū bào zhìhái gěi men jiǎng shìzhè shì qīn shì hòu hái men suǒ néng dào de wéi de tóng shí gěi xià luò liǎng mèi mèi dài lái zuì chū de yǐng xiǎngshǐ men cóng xiǎo jiù duì wén xué chǎn shēng liǎo nóng hòu de xīng
  
  1824 niánjiě jiě suō bái bèi sòng dào háo jìn de wén qiáo suǒ xué xiào shū jiǔ xià luò mèi mèi 'ài bèi sòng dāng shízhǐ yòu qióng rén de cái jìn zhè zhǒng xué xiào de tiáo jiàn chāxiào guī què fēi cháng yán hái men zhōng nián bǎo shí zhī yòu yào shòu měi féng xīng tiānhái mào zhe yán hán huò zhě shǔ xíng yīng jiào táng zuò bàiyóu tiáo jiàn 'è liè 'èr nián xué xiào jiù liú xíng shāng hánxià luò de liǎng jiě jiě rǎn shàng bìngbèi sòng huí jiā hòu méi tiān tòng liǎozhè zhī hòu qīn zài ràng xià luò 'ài suǒ xué xiàodàn de qiē zài xià luò de xīn líng shēn chù liú xià liǎo de yìn xiàng yǒng yuǎn wàng liǎo zhè duàn shēng huóhòu lái zài de xiǎo shuōjiǎn · àizhōng yòu bǎo hán zhe tòngqiè zhī qíng duì zuò liǎo miáo huìér xiǎo shuō zhōng 'ài de xiǎo niàn hǎi lún de xíng xiàngjiù shì de jiě jiě wéi yuán xíng dexià luò huí dào jiā hòushēng huó yòu xiàng guò yàngdàn mèi mèi men de xīng què gèng jiā guǎng fàn liǎo men xué yīnyuètánqínchàng huà huàér zuì shǐ men gǎn xīng de què shì xué xiě zuò lǎng jiā xiàng qún suǒ xià luò jiě mèi yòu xìng zài háo zhè de cūn luò men suǒ néng zhǎo dào de wéi wèi jièjiù shì miàn duì huāng rèn píng xiǎng xiàng chí chěngbiān xiě dòng rén de shìdāng shí xià luò 14 suì xiě liǎo duō xiǎo shuōshī běn kāi liè de shū dān gòng xiě liǎo 11 juàn zhī duōměi juàn 60 dào 100 zhè xiē zuò jìn guǎn hái hěn yòu zhìdàn biǎo xiàn chū xiāng dāng hòu shí de wén xué yǎng fēng de xiǎng xiàng zhè yàng de zuò shuō wéi wǎng hòu zài wén tán shàng chéng míng zuò liǎo chōng fēn zhǔn bèi
  
  15 suì shíxià luò jìn xiǎo jiě zài luó hǎi bàn de xué xiào shū nián hòu wèile zhèng qián gōng mèi men shàng xuéyòu zài zhè suǒ xué xiào dāng liǎo jiào shī biān jiāoshū biān xiě zuòdàn zhì hái méi yòu biǎo guò rèn zuò pǐn。 1836 nián jiù shì zài 20 suì shí zhe dǎn de shǒu duǎn shī gěi dāng shí de guì guān shī rén sāo sàirán 'ér dào de què shì zhè wèi shī rén de dùn xùn chìsāo sài zài huí xìn zhōng háo duì shuō:“ wén xué shì rén de shì qíng men méi yòu xiě shī de tiān 。” zhè pén lěng shuǐ shǐ xià luò hěn shāng xīndàn bìng méi yòu yīn 'ér sàng shī xìn xīnréng rán jiān chí xiě zuò。 1838 niánxià luò kāi xiǎo jiě de xué xiào 'èr nián dào yòu qián rén jiā dān rèn jiā tíng jiào shīzhè zhí zài dāng shí shì shòu shì deér xià luò gèng shì qīn shēn yàn liǎo zuò wéi míng jiā tíng jiào shī de xīn zài dāng shí gěi mèi mèi 'ài de fēng xìn zhōng zhè yàng xiě dào:“ rén jiào shī shì méi yòu cún zài degēn běn bèi dāng zuò huó deyòu xìng de rén kàn dài。” suǒ hěn kuài jiù tǎo yàn shèn zhì zēng 'è jiā tíng jiào shī zhèyīháng dāng liǎo zài 1839 nián 1841 nián fēn bié dāng guò liǎng jiā tíng jiào shīdàn měi zhǐ yòu yuè de shí jiānyīn wéi rěn shòu liǎo jiù shì zài zhè liǎng nián yòu rén xiàng xià luò qiú hūn shì de yǒu de lìng shì wèi nián qīng de shīdàn shìzhè liǎng qiú hūn dōubèi jué liǎoyuán yīn shì rèn wéi men bìng shì zhēn zhèng 'ài zhǐ shì 'àn chuán tǒng yào 'ér
  
   xià luò 'ài dōubù yuàn kāi jiā dào wài miàn móu shēngdàn jǐn kào qīn de shōu yòu shēng huó shì men biàn xiǎng zài běn cūn bàn suǒ xué xiàojiào dāng hái shūzhè yàng néng wéi chí shēng men xiǎng jiào shì men de bìng hǎozhè shízài men jiā bāng zhù zhào liào jiā de tǐng shēn 'ér chū chū suǒ yòu de ràng jiě mèi liǎ dào sài 'ěr gōng
  
   zhè yàng men jiù jìn liǎo sài 'ěr de suǒ xué xiàozhè suǒ xué xiào shì yóu duì xìng 'āi de bàn debìng yóu 'āi xiān shēng qīn jiào shòu āi xiān shēng de guó wén xué zào hěn shēn lǎng jiě mèi liǎ zài de jiào huì xiàjǐn yòng nián shí jiānjiù zhǎng liǎo chǔ zhī shíhái yuè liǎo liàng guó wén xué míng zhùliǎo jiě liǎo zhǒng liú pài zuò jiā de chuàng zuò fēng shù diǎndàn shìduì xià luò lái shuōzài sài 'ěr de nián jiāngěi liú xià zuì shēn yìn xiàng de què shì 'āi xiān shēng běn rén jǐn xué shí yuān cōng míng guò rénhái yòu zhǒng duì nián qīng fēi cháng yòu yǐn de nán xìng róng dòngyòu diǎn dàn shí fēn shuài zhíshuǎng kuàixià luò nèi xīn 'ài shàng zhè yòu zhī dàn shǐ zhōng méi yòu míng què biǎo āi xiān shēng duì quán rán xīnsuǒ jiù zhè zhǒng wēi miào de qíng gǎn zhí zài xīn cóng sài 'ěr huí guó hòuxià luò biàn liǎng mèi mèi kāi shǐ chóu bàn xué xiàohái guà chū liǎo lǎng jiě mèi xué xiàode zhāo pái shì men wàn wàn méi yòu xiǎng dàozài yuè jìng rán méi yòu xué shēng lái bào míng xuéděng lái de zhǐ shì shàng mén shōu shuì de guān yuán
  
   bàn xué de xiǎng miè liǎoxià luò jué xiě zuò hái yòu chū 。 1845 nián qiū tiān 'ǒu rán liǎo mèi mèi 'ài xiě de xiē shī rán xiǎng dào men sān jiě mèi chū běn shī shì men shāng liàng zhī hòuměi rén chū xiē shī zài yòng dāng shí shì de liú xià de xiē qián fèi chū bǎn liǎo běn shī men méi yòu shǔ zhēn míngér shì fēn bié yòng liǎo sān jiǎ míng · bèi 'ěrāi · bèi 'ěr 'ā dùn · bèi 'ěrjìn guǎn men de shī xiěde hěn měiquè méi yòu rén zhù chū bǎn hòu zhǐ mài diào liǎo liǎng běn
  
   dàn shì guǎn zěn me shuōshī de chū bǎn duì men lái shuō zǒng shì jiàn shì men de chuàng zuò qíng shòu dào liǎo shì sān jiě mèi yòu kāi shǐ mái tóu xiě xiǎo shuōzhè shíxià luò sān shí suì huā liǎo jiāng jìn nián shí jiānxiě chéng cháng piān xiǎo shuō míngjiào shī》; mèi mèi 'ài 'ān fēn bié xiě liǎo cháng piān xiǎo shuō xiào shān zhuāngài · léi》。 men sān xiǎo shuō gěi chū bǎn shāng jiǔchū bǎn shāng huí men shuō,《 xiào shān zhuāngài · léi bèi jiē shòudàn xià luò dejiào shījiāng bèi tuì huí
  
   zhè duì xià luò lái shuō shì xiǎo de dàn méi yòu tuì suōfǎn 'ér biē zhe yòu kāi shǐ xiě lìng cháng piān xiǎo shuōzhè jiù shìjiǎn · ài》。
  
  《 jiǎn · àizhōng de rén qíng jié duō shì zài shēng huó zhōng jīng guò huò zhě fēi cháng shú dezài shuō yòu chōng mǎn liǎo qíngsuǒ xiě zuò jìn hěn kuài dào nián jiù tuō gǎo liǎogǎo jiāo chū hòulìng chū bǎn shāng wéi jīng tōng xiāo mián shěn zuì hòuchū bǎn shāng rèn dìng shì jié zuòjué dìng shàng chū bǎnjiù zhè yàngliǎng yuè hòu,《 jiǎn · ài》( 1847) jiù wèn shì liǎoér liǎng mèi mèi de zuò pǐn shí hái zài yìn shuà zhī zhōng
  
   jiǔsān jiě mèi de sān zuò pǐn quán wèn shìdāng shí de yīng guó wén tán wéi zhèn jīngyīn wéi sān jiě mèi de sān cháng piān xiǎo shuō fēi cháng chū yóu shì xià luò dejiǎn · ài》( chū bǎn shí zuò zhě shǔ míng wéi · bèi 'ěr), gèng shì yǐn hōng dòng jiē xiǎo xiàng dōuzài tán lùn zhè xiǎo shuōrén men hái dào chù tīng cāi zuò zhě dào shì shuí
  
   lǎng sān jiě mèi zài wén xué chuàng zuò shàng de chéng gōnggěi lǎng jiā dài lái liǎo de huān dàn shì jiǔjiā jiù shēng liǎo lián chuàn xìng shì jiàn。 1848 nián 9 yuè men de huàn bìng shìsān yuè hòuài rǎn shàng jié bìngxiāng shìxià luò dān xīn xiǎo mèi mèi 'ān huì rǎn shàng qiǎo shì qíng zhèng shì zhè yàngān bìng hòu tuō liǎo 5 yuè kāi liǎo rén jiān
  
   xià luò shēn shòu zhǐ yòu quán shēn xīn tóu xiě zuòcái néng zàn shí wàng nèi xīn de bēi tòng mái tóu xiě cháng piān xiǎo shuōxiè 》, 1849 nián 8 yuè wán chéng, 10 yuè chū bǎn。《 xiè shǐ zài huò chéng gōngzhè zhī hòu biàn liǎo lún dūnzài lún dūn de nián jié shí liǎo shǎo zuò jiā zhōng zuì yòu míng de shì léi gài kǎi 'ěr rén léi duì de zuò pǐn píng jià hěn gāoér jiǎn · ài 'èr bǎn xiàn gěi léi biǎo shì duì zhè wèi zhù míng zuò jiā de jìng gài kǎi 'ěr rén chéng liǎo de zhì yǒuliǎng rén guò wǎng shèn hái wán chéng bìng chū bǎn liǎo cháng piān xiǎo shuōwéi lāi 》, bìng sān nián shí yuè kāi shǐ chuàng zuò cháng piān xiǎo shuōài 》。
  
   nián liù yuè 'èr shí jiǔ sān shí suì de xià luò zhōng zhí de lǎo de fǎn duì 'ā bèi 'ěr shī jié liǎo hūnchí lái de 'ài qíng gěi dài lái liǎo wèi jiè huān dàn hūn hòu de xìng jìng shì me duǎn zànliù yuè hòu de tiānxià luò zhàng dào jiā shù yīng de huāng yuán shēn chù guān kàn shān jiàn guī zhōng shòu hán hòu biàn bìng nián sān yuè sān shí sān shí suì de xià luò xìng kāi liǎo rén jiānhái dài liǎo shàng wèi chū shì de yīng 'ér
  
   'èr bǎn běn
   yīng guó xiǎo shuō jiāài · lǎng zhī jiěshì huó yuè zài yīng guó wén tán shàng de lǎng sān jiě mèi zhī shì sān jiě mèi zhōng nián líng zuì desān jiě mèi chū shēng zài yīng lán běi yuē jùn shì jué de cūn qīn shì qióng shīquán kào men wèi xiǎo yòu chǎn de zhù men shàng xuébìng liú gěi men cái chǎnhòu lái sān jiě mèi yòng zhè cái chǎn de fēn fèi chū bǎn liǎo men de shī tóng nián de xià luò cháng xiōng jiě mèi yòng xiǎo běn xiě xiē de shì chuán de tiānfèn men hòu tiān de sān jiě mèi dōuyòu míng shàn cháng xiě zuò, 1847 nián mendōu biǎo liǎo xiǎo shuōxià luò yòng bèi 'ěr de míng biǎo liǎojiǎn · ài》。 xià luò dāng guò jiào shī jiā tíng jiào shī céng mèi mèi 'ài 1842 nián shí sài 'ěr xué diǎn wén xuéxià luò de zuò pǐn zhù yào miáo xiě pín de xiǎo chǎn zhě de fǎn kàng fèn dǒushǔ bèi chēng wéi gèng wéi shǒu dechū de pài”。《 jiǎn · àishì de chǔnǚ zuò shì dài biǎo zuòzhì jīn réng shòu dào guǎng zhě de huān yíngshí shàng lǎng sān jiě mèi yòu biàn 'ài xiě zuòcháng cháng zài běn shàng xiě xiē guān jué de xiǎo shuō hòu diū shī liǎoxià luò hái chū bǎn guò shī de xiǎo shuō yòu:《 xuě 》( 1849)、《 wéi lāi 》( 1853) jiào shī》( 1857)。 zhōngwéi lāi kàn zuò shì rén de xiǎo shuō zìzhuàn de rén shēng jīng shí fēn xiāng zhè wèi tiān shēng ruò de zuò jiā shì shí jiǔ shì yīng guó wén tán shàng cuǐ càn de míng zhū
  
   lǎng jiě mèi
  
  1847 nián,《 jiǎn · ài xiào shān zhuāngzài yīng guó xiān hòu chū bǎnzhè liǎng zuò pǐn de chū xiànyǐn liǎo wén xué jiè qiáng liè de hōng dòngér zhè liǎng xiǔ de míng zhù jìng chū míng jiàn chuán de liǎng jiě mèi zhī shǒugèng chéng liǎo yīng guó wén xué shǐ shàng de jiā huàzhè liǎng jiě mèi jiù shì xià luò · lǎng 'ài · lǎng xià luò dejiǎn · àiyīn cái de xīn yíng gǎn qíng de zhēn zhì yǐn dāng shí píng lùn jiè de zhòng shìér 'ài píng zhe xiào shān zhuāngzhè yòu zhe xiǎng xiàng de xiǎo shuō zài yīng guó wén xué shǐ shàng zhàn yòu chū wèirán 'ér rén men méi yòu xiǎng dàozhè liǎng jiě mèi de chéng gōng què yuán men mèn xìng de shēng huó
  
   liáng de tóng nián
  
   lǎng jiě mèi shēngzhǎng zài qióng shī jiā tíng men de qīn zài hái men hái hěn nián yòu shí huàn fèi 'ái shìzhè shǐ quán jiā xiàn liǎo xìngshī liǎo qīnhái men de tóng nián jiù xiàng méi yòu yáng guāng de shēn dōng liáng 'ér méi yòu huān suǒ xìng de shì men de qīn wèi qióng shī-- xué shí yuān qīn jiào men shūzhǐ dǎo men kàn shū bàozhè xiē gěi liǎo men hěn de yǐng xiǎngzhè suàn shì xìng zhōng de wàn xìng
  
   yóu shēng huó de lǎng jiě mèi zài shàn xué xiào guò liǎo duàn tóng niányīn wéi xué xiào de shēng huó tiáo jiàn shí fēn 'è lièxià luò 'ài de liǎng jiě jiě xiān hòu huàn fèi bìng zhè gěi xià luò chén zhòng de hòu lái jiāng zhè jiā xué xiào bān jìn liǎojiǎn · ài》, bìng qiě wèile niàn de jiě jiězài shū zhōng zào liǎo hǎi lún · péng de 'ài de xiǎo niàn de xíng xiàng hòuxià luò 'ài jiù huí dào jiā lán wēi 'ěr mèi mèi 'ān xué
  
   men de jiā zhù zài huāng liáng piān de shān zài jiā shàng zhè jiā tíng xiàng qún suǒ yīn men yóu wán de chǎng zhǐ yòu wàng de zhǎo biān de kuàng men cháng zài kuàng sàn gǎn shòu zhe kuàng de fēn bié shì 'ài biǎo miàn chén guǎ yánnèi xīn què qíng bēn fàng jiāng kuàng de gǎn shòu quán xiě jìn liǎo xiào shān zhuāng》, gòu chéng liǎo xiào shān zhuāngde fēn wéiwèile de shí guāng men biàn cháng cháng shūxiě zuò shī zhuàn chuán shì men bàn liǎo shǒu chāo de kān :《 nián qīng rén de zhì》, biān xiě zhè gěi men dài lái liǎo duì men hòu chéng wéi zhù míng de zuò jiā shì chū duàn liànlóu shíxià luò xiě liǎo duō xiǎo shuōshī běn zài 14 suì shí kāi liè de zuò pǐn míng dānjiù yòu 22 juàn
  
   jiān gōng zuò hòu de jiě tuō
  
   wèile shēng huó lǎng jiě mèi xiān hòu jiā chū wài dāng jiā tíng jiào shī de shēng huó liǎo men qiáng liè de fèn zhī qíngxià luò bèi gǎn shì zēng hèn jiā tíng jiào shī zhè hángdāngliǎng zhǐ gōng zuò liǎo yuè jiù kāi liǎodàn zhè duàn jīng què wéijiǎn · ài gōng liǎo zhòng yào de cáizài jiān ruòbìsè de shēng huó zhōng lǎng jiě mèi jīng cháng yòng wǎn shàng de diǎn xiá xiě zuòzuò wéi duì tiān zào wèi de xīn láo gōng zuò de zhǒng jiě tuōyóu shì 'ài chú liǎo gōng zuò zhī wàihái yào chéng dān quán jiā fán zhòng de jiā láo dòng shāo càikǎo miàn bāowèile suí shí xià xiě zuò cái zài chú fáng gànhuó shízǒng shì suí shēn dài zhe zhǐ zhǐ yào yòu kōng jiù nǎo liǎo liǎo yǒng xiàn de xiǎng xiě xià láirán hòu shāo fàn
  
   zhè duàn shí men zhí méi yòu tíng zhǐ chuàng zuò huó dòng。 1836 niánxià luò xiě de shǒu shī gěi liǎo dāng shí zhù míng de guì guān shī rén sāo sài liào sāo sài jìng rèn wéi wén xué shì de shì ér qiě rèn wéi xià luò méi yòu shū de cái néng jué huì xiǎng dàozhèng shì zhè rèn wéi méi yòu shū cái néng de xià luò · lǎng zài 10 nián hòu huì chéng wéi hōng dòng yīng guó wén tán de zuò jiā
  
   lǎng jiě mèi céng suàn bàn suǒ xué xiào shì yìn liǎo zhāo shēng guǎng gàoquè méi yòu rén lái bào míngzhè shí men wéi de lán wēi 'ěr yóu huán jìng de yǎng chéng liǎo jiǔ de 'è bìng wéi diū diào liǎo gōng zuòchéng wéi jiā tíng de dān。 1845 nián qiū de tiānxià luò 'ǒu rán kàn dào 'ài xiě de běn shī shēn shòu gǎn dòngxiǎng dào xiě zuò shì tiáo chū shì dòng yòng liǎo shì de liú gěi men de chǎn liǎng mèi mèi chū běn shī dàn shì jìn guǎn shī xiěde hěn měiquè wèi néng yǐn rén men de zhù zhǐ mài diào liǎo liǎng běn
  
   xiǎo shuō chuàng zuò shàng de chéng gōng
  
   suī rán zhè běn shī de chū bǎn réng liǎo men de chuàng zuò qíng shì lǎng jiě mèi mái tóu xiě xiǎo shuō láizhè niánxiǎo mèi mèi 'ān · lǎng xiě chéng liǎoài · léi》, ài xiě chéng liǎo xiào shān zhuāng》, xià luò xiě chéng liǎojiào shòu》。 qián liǎng dōubèi chū bǎn shāng jiē shòu liǎozhǐ yòujiào shòubèi tuì huídàn xià luò méi yòu huī xīn kāi shǐ xiějiǎn · ài》, xiǎo shuō zhōng de rén qíng jié hěn duō dōushì cóng shēng huó zhōng jīng guò de huò shì shú de yòng liǎo nián shí jiān xiāng dāng kuài de xiě hǎo liǎojiǎn · ài》, liǎng yuè hòushū chū bǎn liǎoérài · léi xiào shān zhuāngzhí dàojiǎn · àichū bǎn hòu fāng cái chū bǎnrán 'ér shì zhǐ yòujiǎn · àihuò liǎo chéng gōngshòu dào zhòng shì,《 xiào shān zhuāngquè bùwèi dāng shí de zhě suǒ jiě


  Charlotte Brontë (pronounced /ˈbrɒnti/ or /ˈbrɒnteɪ/)) (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre.
  
  Biography
  
  Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë (formerly "Patrick Brunty"), an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria née Branwell. In 1820, the family moved a few miles to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. Mrs Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). Its poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who died of tuberculosis in June 1825 soon after their father removed them from the school on 1 June.
  
  At home in Haworth Parsonage, Charlotte and the other surviving children — Branwell, Emily and Anne — began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of their imaginary kingdoms. Charlotte and Branwell wrote Byronic stories about their country — Angria — and Emily and Anne wrote articles and poems about theirs — Gondal. The sagas were elaborate and convoluted (and still exist in part manuscripts) and provided them with an obsessive interest in childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood.
  
  Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head, Mirfield, from 1831 to 1832, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. During this period, she wrote her novella The Green Dwarf (1833) under the name of Wellesley. Charlotte returned as a teacher from 1835 to 1838. In 1839, she took up the first of many positions as governess to various families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841.
  
  In 1842 she and Emily travelled to Brussels to enroll in a boarding school run by Constantin Heger (1809 – 1896) and his wife Claire Zoé Parent Heger (1814 – 1891). In return for board and tuition, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. Their time at the boarding school was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt who joined the family after the death of their mother to look after the children, died of internal obstruction in October 1842. Charlotte returned alone to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the boarding school. Her second stay at the boarding school was not a happy one; she became lonely, homesick and deeply attached to Constantin Heger. She finally returned to Haworth in January 1844 and later used her time at the boarding school as the inspiration for some of The Professor and Villette.
  
  In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily and Anne published a joint collection of poetry under the assumed names of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Although only two copies were sold, the sisters continued writing for publication and began their first novels. Charlotte used "Currer Bell" when she published her first two novels. Of this, Brontë later wrote:
  
   Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because—without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called 'feminine' -- we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise.
  
  Indeed, her novels were deemed coarse by the critics.[citation needed] There was speculation about the identity of Currer Bell, and whether Bell was a man or a woman.
  Title page of the first edition of Jane Eyre
  
  Charlotte's brother, Branwell, the only son of the family, died of chronic bronchitis and marasmus exacerbated by heavy drinking in September 1848, although Charlotte believed his death was due to tuberculosis. Branwell was also a suspected "opium eater", (i.e. a laudanum addict). Emily and Anne both died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848 and May 1849, respectively.
  
  Charlotte and her father were now left alone together. In view of the enormous success of Jane Eyre, she was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes. Her book had sparked a movement in regards to feminism in literature. The main character, Jane Eyre, in her novel Jane Eyre, was a parallel to herself, a woman who was strong. However, she never left Haworth for more than a few weeks at a time as she did not want to leave her aging father's side.
  
  Thackeray’s daughter, the writer Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie recalled a visit to her father by Charlotte Brontë:
  
   “... two gentlemen come in, leading a tiny, delicate, serious, little lady, with fair straight hair, and steady eyes. She may be a little over thirty; she is dressed in a little barège dress with a pattern of faint green moss. She enters in mittens, in silence, in seriousness; our hearts are beating with wild excitement. This then is the authoress, the unknown power whose books have set all London talking, reading, speculating; some people even say our father wrote the books - the wonderful books... The moment is so breathless that dinner comes as a relief to the solemnity of the occasion, and we all smile as my father stoops to offer his arm; for, genius though she may be, Miss Brontë can barely reach his elbow. My own personal impressions are that she is somewhat grave and stern, specially to forward little girls who wish to chatter... Every one waited for the brilliant conversation which never began at all. Miss Brontë retired to the sofa in the study, and murmured a low word now and then to our kind governess... the conversation grew dimmer and more dim, the ladies sat round still expectant, my father was too much perturbed by the gloom and the silence to be able to cope with it at all... after Miss Brontë had left, I was surprised to see my father opening the front door with his hat on. He put his fingers to his lips, walked out into the darkness, and shut the door quietly behind him... long afterwards... Mrs. Procter asked me if I knew what had happened... It was one of the dullest evenings [Mrs Procter] had ever spent in her life... the ladies who had all come expecting so much delightful conversation, and the gloom and the constraint, and how finally, overwhelmed by the situation, my father had quietly left the room, left the house, and gone off to his club.”
  
  In June 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate, and became pregnant soon thereafter. Her health declined rapidly during this time, and according to Gaskell, her earliest biographer, she was attacked by "sensations of perpetual nausea and ever-recurring faintness." Charlotte died, along with her unborn child, on 31 March 1855, at the young age of 38. Her death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis (tuberculosis), but many biographers suggest she may have died from dehydration and malnourishment, caused by excessive vomiting from severe morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum. There is also evidence to suggest that Charlotte died from typhus she may have caught from Tabitha Ackroyd, the Brontë household's oldest servant, who died shortly before her. Charlotte was interred in the family vault in The Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Haworth, West Yorkshire, England.
  
  The Life of Charlotte Brontë, the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by Gaskell, was the first of many biographies about Charlotte to be published. Though frank in places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and as a possible source of distress to Charlotte's still-living friends, father and husband (Lane 1853 178–183). Gaskell also provided doubtful and inaccurate information about Patrick Brontë, claiming, for example, that he did not allow his children to eat meat. This is refuted by one of Emily Brontë's diary papers, in which she describes the preparation of meat and potatoes for dinner at the parsonage, as Juliet Barker points out in her recent biography, The Brontës. It was discovered that Charlotte wrote 20 manuscript pages of a book, but died before she could finish; Clare Boylan finished it in 2007 as Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë.
    

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