The Life of Charlotte BronteCharlotte Bronte was born in 1816, the third child of Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte. The couple had a total of six children before Maria Brontë died of cancer in 1821. Reverend Bronte subsequently treated his children Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Patrick Branwell, Emily and Anne harshly. He also sent the five girls to school at Cowan Bridge. At the school for clergy girls, conditions were bad. When a fever broke out at school, Maria and Elizabeth succumbed to the illness. Therefore, Charlotte, Emily and Anne were removed and brought home. The children's aunt, Aunt Bess, became their new teacher. Although the four children were deeply affected by the deaths of their two sisters, they devoted their free time to striving to realize their imaginations. This was perhaps necessary given that the environment around them was the bleak moorland of Yorkshire, England. For example, when their father gave Patrick Branwell a box of toy soldiers, they used these miniatures as inspiration to begin their respective writing adventures. So the Bronte children began writing at an early age in response to the fantasies of their youth. Charlotte Brontë was sent to the Roe Head School in 1831. Her father's health was in danger and he wanted his daughter to be able to be economically independent. . Mrs Wooler was head of RoeHead School. There were seven to ten students at the school during the two years Charlotte was at the school. The school was more like a small family than a boarding school. At first, Charlotte...... middle of paper... ll, Emily and Anne in 1848. Famous publishers and friends in London supported her, but in 1851 she herself suffered from problems of health. She married in 1854 and wrote another novel Villette. However, in 1855 she died of tuberculosis and pregnancy complications. Charlotte Brontë was only thirty-nine years old when she died. She had published several collections of poems and three novels. The settings of novels, like that of Jane Eyre, contain elements that characterized his own life. Such features are the bleak moors of England. A feeling of despair also characterizes his life and work. Charlotte's personal life was unhappy and, according to her biographer, Elizabeth Gaskell, who was also her contemporary, Charlotte never entertained hope for the future. This undoubtedly affected the tone and mood of his work..