![]() (Facebook/Charlotte Bronte)Ĭharlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were a clergyman’s daughters who wrote for pleasure and dreamt of becoming published authors but feared they would not be taken seriously because they were women. ![]() Charlotte was the oldest of the three Bronte sisters. The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, a remote village on the edge of moors in Yorkshire, draws tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year, while the sisters’ books are staples in British bookshops and school curriculums. The anniversary highlights the enduring global popularity of the Brontes, whose works are seen as among the most important ever written by female authors.Ī wreath will be laid for Bronte in Westminster Abbey on Friday and a ballet version of Jane Eyre will open next month, while the National Portrait Gallery is hosting an exhibition in her honour. Read: 5 forgotten literary classics to curl up with on a rainy day ![]() Jane Eyre was published on 16 October 1847.(Facebook/Charlotte Bronte)įans of the celebrated book hosted a birthday party at the house in northern England where Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne grew up and wrote books. The Victorian novelist is best known for her timeless classic Jane Eyre that has haunted generations of readers. Britain marked the 200th birth anniversary of Charlotte Bronte on Thursday. ![]()
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