Charlotte Brontë (1816–55) was an English novelist and poet. Her writings initially appeared under the male alias Currer Bell. Charlotte was one of a troika of Brontë sisters whose writings introduced some of the most captivating individuals in the history of the novel.
Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë, grew up in the genteel poverty in the desolate Yorkshire village of Haworth and had limited experience of the outside world. The early death of their mother and their two older sisters drove the remaining children into an intense and private intimacy. Each sister went on to transform great personal adversity into distinctive artistic visions of passionate, emotional engagement that few other authors can match.
Charlotte’s four novels, The Professor (1846,) Jane Eyre (1847,) Shirley (1849,) and Villette (1853,) are works of remarkable passion and imagination. Jane Eyre, her best-known novel, tells the story of a plain and impoverished orphan governess who falls in love with her troubled—and married—employer. Brontë portrayed the struggle of the individual to maintain personal integrity with a dramatic intensity entirely new to English fiction.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Anger, Faith
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Action
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Custom
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well.
—Charlotte Bronte
Indisputably a great, good, handsome man is the first of created things.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Man
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
—Charlotte Bronte
Topics: Thinking
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
—Charlotte Bronte
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
—Charlotte Bronte
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