Beauty and Sorrow: A Real Charlotte Brontë

Author: Wu Shaoping
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Charlotte Bront? was born in a minister's family in the northern part of England in 1816. Her mother passed away early, and at the age of eight, Charlotte was sent to a boarding school. The living conditions there were extremely harsh, and her two older sisters died from tuberculosis. Charlotte and her sister Emily then returned to their hometown and spent their childhood in the desolate Yorkshire Hills. At the age of 15, she attended a school run by Miss Wooler and later became a teacher at the same school. Later, she worked as a governess but gave up this career path because she could not tolerate the discrimination and harshness of the wealthy and privileged toward governesses. She had also planned to open her own school and, with the help of her aunt, went to Italy with Emily to study French and German. However, due to a lack of students, the school was not established. Nevertheless, her experience in Italy inspired her strong desire to express herself and led her to dedicate herself to literary creation. This book tells the life of the literary prodigy Charlotte Bront?. It includes her unique childhood, her days of studying abroad, her difficult journey forward, her brilliant literary world, and her life and death.