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tution: After a brief trg back to Haworth, Charlotte returned alone to Brussels and became emotionally
rache to Herin When Charlotte's love was not reciprocated, she was overwhelmed with depression
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Upon Charlotte's return, she and Emily worked to realize their dream of opening a school in Haworth
Unfortunately, the school was a complete failure the advertisements for the school did not result in a
single public response. With the failure of the school, Charlotte and her sisters were free to focus on
their literary careers. Having discovered some of Emily's poems during the previous year, Charlotte
decided to submit for publication the selected poems of all three sisters, in 1846, a collection of their
poems was published under the pseudonyms of Carrer Ellis, and Acton Bell Charlotte's first novel. The
Proffessor, was also written during this time, though it was initially rejected for publication and was met
with very little enthusiasm However Charlotte's second novel, Jane Eyre, was published the following
year and was a resounding success. The same year also saw the publication of Emily's novel Wuthering
Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey
In 1868 Charlotte visited her publisher in London and revealed the true identity of the "Bells" However.
her happiness at their literary success was soon mamed by the death of her brother, Branwell, followed
shortly by the deaths of both Emily and Arme Chariotte coped with her loss by spending time within the
many dies of London, among such making higures such as William Makepeace Thackeray, and striving
either sisters works At this point, Charlotte began to suffer from health problems of her own in
1852, the Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls, the curate of Hawomh since 1845, proposed marriage to
Cherie Unfortunately, Charlotte's father was violently opposed to the match, and Charlotte refused to
at the proposal. (According to many accounts, Charlotte was mot m love with the Reverend Nicholls
and thus, was not overly heartbroken at her father's apposition) in the midst of this disappointed
cumship, Charlotte watked on her next novel, Willette, which was published in 1853. The following year.
the Reverend Brame's opposition to the Reverend Nicholls faded, and the Reverend Nicholls renewed his
propecall to Charlotte Despite her seeming apathy towards him, Charlotte married him in 1854 Shortly
after becoming pregnant, she was diagnosed with pneumonia and died of the disease im 1855. She was
only thirtyenme years old.
Some biographers claim that Charlotte Bronte actually starved herself to death because of her dislike of
her husband Others argue that her death was merely a subconscious effort to relieve herself of the
depression that had plagued her entire life. Charlotte's personal life was ultimately an unhappy ane, and,
according to her biographer and forend Eizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte never harbored any hope for the
future. The settings and themes of her novels and poems demonstrate this sense of hopelessness and
also highlight her belief that God had appointed some people for sorrow and some people for happiness
Although Jane Eyre can be read as a happy novel, the isolated mentality of the heroine and the difficult
circumstances of her upbringing clearly reflect Charlotte's own perception of the world
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