charlotte bronte

     

She wrote about shy teacher Lucy Snowe in "Villette" after creating a shy governess named Jane Eyre

Trivia about charlotte bronte

  • This Bronte sister revealed in an 1840s letter, "I am neither a man nor a woman but an author"
  • Edward Fairfax Rochester, the master of Thornfield Hall
  • Paul Emmanuel in this Bronte's novel "Villette" is based on M. Heger, a married man she fell in love with in Brussels
  • Author full of hot "Eyre"
  • Surely you know that "Shirley" was a later novel by this "Jane Eyre" author
  • The heroine of her 1849 novel "Shirley" was inspired by her late sister Emily
  • Edward, at least his name, was partly inspired by Edward Rochester in this author's "Jane Eyre"
  • In her youth, this Bronte sister wrote under the masculine alias Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley