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Charlotte Brontë

Also known as Tree, Florian Wellesley, Lord Charles Albert, Captain Tree, Charles Wellesley, Charlotte Bronte, Currer Bell, Karlotta Bronte

British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

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Charlotte Brontë was a female author from England whose work period began in 1846. She wrote under the pseudonyms Currer Bell, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Captain Tree. Her notable works include Villette, The professor, The Shakespeare Head Brontë, Guía literaria de Londres, and Guía literaria del amor.

She was born on 21 April 1816 and died on 31 March 1855. Her writings are associated with tags such as Audiobook, Words, spoken word, english, and sisters three. She is listed among similar artists alongside Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Leo Tolstoy.

Brontë is referenced by 1,069 other encyclopedia articles. Her quotes include reflections on friendship and faith, such as "I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!" and "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

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Person · Open Library

Born: 21 April 1816
Died: 31 March 1855
Works: 1137

Top works

Guía literaria de Londres
The Shakespeare Head Brontë
Villette
Guía literaria del amor
The professor, etc

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: England
Active from: 1816-04-21
Active to: 1855-03-31

has german audiobooks

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 784
Total plays: 34,663

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
· 2021 · cited 15,088x
The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,184x
Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
· 2020 · cited 7,005x

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Quotes

“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
“I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance — what I have always said in theory — Wait God's will.”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
“If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey. Now don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare and Byron. Both these were great men, and their works are like themselves. You will know how to choose the good and avoid the evil; the finest passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting, you will never wish to read them over twice.”
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

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Works in European collections

15 objects attributed to Charlotte Brontë, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Jane Eyre

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Encyclopedic overview

Charlotte Nicholls (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known by her maiden name Charlotte Brontë (/ˈʃɑːrlət ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/), was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Jane Eyre was a great success on publication, and has since been acknowledged as a classic of English literature.

Charlotte was the third of six siblings born to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë. Maria died when Charlotte was only five years old, and three years later, Charlotte was sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, along with her three sisters, Maria, Elizabeth and Emily. Conditions at the school were appalling, with frequent outbreaks of disease. Charlotte's two elder sisters fell ill there and died shortly afterwards; Charlotte attributed her own lifelong ill-health to her time at Cowan Bridge, and later used it as the model for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.

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