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Article: BRIGHTENED AT THE NAME OF JESUS.
- Article from:
- Banbridge Leader (Banbridge, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2007
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CHARLOTTE Bronte was the first born of that sad but gifted family and the one of the six children who lived the longest.
Two of Patrick and Maria's children died in fancy and the remaining four lived very short, socially reclusive, but significant lives for the enriching of our language.
Charlotte, aware that she needed to earn a living, trained and worked as a governess and returned to Haworth in August 1846 and began working, secretly on the novel 'Jane Eyre'.
The novel under the name of Currer Bell was published in October 1847 and was an immediate success.
Charlotte, of the three sisters lived long enough to enjoy the public ...