On 29 June 1854 Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls (1819-1906), her father's curate.
In her last novel, Villette, published on 28 January 1853, she tells the story of her experience as an English teacher in a girls' school in Villette (Brussels). In October 1849, Charlotte's next novel, Shirley, was published in three volumes by Smith, Elder. By January 1848 a second revised edition of Jane Eyre had appeared, dedicated to Thackeray a third edition followed in April. in 1857), and in October of 1847 she published Jane Eyre: an Autobiography. In 1843 Charlotte returned to Haworth.īy 1846 Charlotte had completed her novel The Professor (published posthumously by Smith, Elder & Co. In 1842 Charlotte travelled to Brussels and enrolled at the Pensionnat Heger, 32 rue d'Isabelle, Brussels, where she stayed to teach English in lieu of tuition fees. In May 1839 Charlotte took the temporary post of governess to the Sidgwick family at Stonegappe, Lothersdale, near Skipton, and in March 1841 became governess to the Whites of Upperwood House, Rawdon, near Leeds. Following an outbreak of typhoid fever in 1825, she was removed from the school, and for the next five and a half years was educated at home.įrom 1831 Charlotte was educated at Margaret Wooler's school at Roe Head, Mirfield, near Dewsbury, where she was to return in 1835 as a teacher. In 1824 Charlotte attended the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, established in 1823 by the Reverend William Carus Wilson. The novelist Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 at Thornton near Bradford, Yorkshire.
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