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My Favourite English writer

Charlotte Brontё

Charlotte Brontё an English novelist of the 19 th

century, was a contemporary of Dickens,Thackeray and Geskell.

Biography

She was a daughter of a poor clergyman.There were 6 children in the family, 5 girls and 1 boy. Their mother died when Charlotte was a very small child. The girls were sent to a charity-school which Charlotte described later in her novel “Jane Eyre”.The children lived at that school in cold gloomy rooms and were always hungry. Charlotte`s sisters, Mary and Elisabeth, died of tuberculosis there.

After the leaving school Charlotte became a teacher and worked for some years at a school for girls. She began to write poems at that time. In 1846 a book of poems by Charlotte and her sister ,Emily and Ann, appeared. In same years Charlotte finished her 1 st novel “The Profesor”,but book had no success with the publishers and appeared only after the writer`s death.

Charlotte continued to write,and the next year her 2 nd novel “Jane Eyre” was published. The novel was a greate success with the readers and was soon followed by other novels.

“ Jane Eyre”

In her best novel “Jane Eyre” Charlotte tells the readers the story of a poor governess .The author gave much attention in her novel to the problems of education. The pictures of life at a charity-school are among the best realistic descriptions in English literature. Charlotte was considered to be 1 of the best writes of critical realism in 19 century English literature.