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Her father was perpetual curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, from 1820 until his death in 1861. Her mother died in 1821, leaving five daughters and a son. All of the girls except Anne were sent to a clergymen’s daughters’ boarding school (recalled as Lowood in Jane Eyre) . The eldest sisters, Maria (‘Helen Burns’) and Elizabeth, became ill there, were taken home, and died soon after at Haworth. Charlotte was employed as a teacher from 1835 to 1838, was subsequently a governess, and in 1842 went with her sister Emily to study languages in Brussels atthe Pensionnat Heger. Both sisters returned to Haworth when their aunt died, but Charlotte went back to the Pensionnat as a teacher in 1843. Her low spirits and her loneliness there were exacerbated by Emily’s absence and by her powerful and unrequited feelings for Monsieur Heger. She returned to Haworth in the following year, and in 1846 there appeared Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Charlotte’s first novel, The Professor, was rejected by several publishers, and was not published until 1857. Jane Eyre was published (under the pseudonym Currer Bell) in 1847 and achieved immediate success. In 1848 Branwell Brontë died, as did Emily before the end of the same year, and Anne in the following summer, so that Charlotte alone survived of the six children. Shirley was published in 1849, and Villette in 1853, both pseudonymously, although Currer Bell was identified as Charlotte Brontë soon after Shirley appeared. In 1854, Charlotte married her father’s curate, the Revd A. B. Nicholls, whose passionate attachment to her won her over despite her father’s objections. She died in March 1855, a few weeks before her thirty-ninth birthday, probably of complications associated with early pregnancy.  \nMargaret Smith is the editor of The Letters of Charlotte Brontë(3 vols., 1995–2004) .  \nHerbert Rosengarten teaches English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.  \nJanet Gezari is Lucy March Haskell ’ 19 Professor of English at Connecticut College. She is the author of Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk (1992) and Last  \nThings: Emily Brontë’s Poems (2007) .  \noxford world ’s classics  \nFor over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics have brought readers closer to the world’s great literature. Now with over 700 titles––from the 4,000-year-old myths of Mesopotamia to the twentieth century’s greatest novels––the series makes available celebrated as well as lesser-known writing.  \nThe pocket-sized hardbacks of the early years contained introductions by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, and other literary figures which enriched the experience of reading. Today the series is recognized for its fine scholarship and reliability in texts that span world literature, drama and poetry, religion, philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers.  \nOXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS  \nCHARLOTTE BRONTË  \nShirley  \nEdited by HERBERT ROSENGARTEN and MARGARET SMITH  \nWith an Introduction and additional Notes by JANET GEZARI  \n1  \n3  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi  \nNew Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto  \nWith offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam  \nOxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \nP","cbCaicWZXCvZKlbg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicWZXCvZKlbg","pdf",4303169,611,"English","# Introduction\n## Early life and education\n## Career and pseudonyms\n## Major works and publication history\n## Marriage and later life","[{\"question\":\"Who is Charlotte Brontë, and where did she grow up?\",\"answer\":\"Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, and her family connections centered on Haworth, Yorkshire through her father’s clerical role.\"},{\"question\":\"Which pseudonyms are mentioned in the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction states that Charlotte, Emily, and Anne used the pseudonyms Currer Bell, Ellis Bell, and Acton Bell.\"},{\"question\":\"What publication milestones are highlighted before and after Shirley?\",\"answer\":\"The text notes that The Professor was rejected and published later, Jane Eyre was published in 1847 with immediate success, Shirley appeared in 1849, and Villette followed in 1853.\"}]","SHIRLEY - Original Text - Charlotte Brontë | PDF",1789988896,941]