CHARLOTTE BRONTE (I816-55). The most admired of the Bronte sisters in her own lifetime , she was also the most prolific. Her four published novels, which are in part autobiographical, are still widely read today.
Her first novel, The Professor, was rejected, but she went on to write Jane Eyre,which is her true claim to greamess.Charlotte refused three offers of marriage but in 1854 she consented to marry her father's curate, A. B. Nicholls.The marriage, however, was short-lived fort he following year Charlotte died from an illness asmciated with pregnancy...
Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich cousins and, later, at Lowood School, Jane escapes to take up a position as governess to the young ward of Mr Rochester. Their love affair, Jane"s discovery of Rochester"s secret - hideously concealed in the attic of Thornfield Hall - and her desperate flight are told in a drama of passionate intensity whose pace never slackens.
Jane Eyre is a love story with a happy ending, rare in its time for its sympathetic portrayal of the love of a married man for another woman. It is, as Thackeray said, "The masterwork of a great genius".
