![]() ![]() Charlotte and her four sisters, Maria, Elizabeth, Emily and Anne, and their brother, Branwell, were raised primarily by their unpleasant, maiden aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, who provided them with little supervision. Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer. In 1820, her father received a curate post in Haworth, a remote town on the Yorkshire moors, where Charlotte spent most of her life. Despite a lack of support from the outside world, Charlotte Brontë found sufficient internal motivation and enthusiasm from her sisters to become a successful writer and balance her familial and creative needs.īorn at Thornton, Yorkshire on April 21, 1816, Charlotte was the third child of Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation." His response indicates the political difficulties women faced as they tried to enter the literary arena in Victorian England domestic responsibilities were expected to require all their energy, leaving no time for creative pursuits. His comments urged her to abandon all literary pursuits: "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. ![]() At age twenty, Charlotte Brontë sent a sample of her poetry to England's Poet Laureate, Robert Southey. ![]()
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