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Haworth Parsonage |
Subsequently, the four remaining children were mostly educated at home in the Haworth Parsonage, entertaining themselves by writing poems, articles, and works pertaining to their country. During Charlotte’s attendance at Roe Head, in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, she came across two girls (Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor) who were admired by Charlotte, in which became her lifelong friends from this point forward. During this time, Charlotte Bronte wrote, “The Green Dwarf” in 1833, afterward she continued work as a governess, within numerous families throughout Yorkshire, England until 1841.
Shortly afterward in 1842, Charlotte and her sister Emily moved in order to attend a boarding school in Brussels. With the sudden death of their Aunt Elizabeth the sisters quickly returned home and never returned as a pair. A year later, Charlotte rejoined the boarding school in 1843 for a short duration before leaving for home the following year. Five years later, her brother, Branwell passed away, followed by her sister, Emily, a few months later; then, her sister, Anne, in 1849, leaving Charlotte alone. It is not to be assumed Charlotte had an easy life, consumed with the frequent deaths within her immediate family.
Finally, just as any reader hopes, Jane returned to her one and only Edward. Sitting on the edge of his or his seat, the reader anticipates a sudden change of plans at any moment. Bronte ends it on a most pleasing note--while Jane bared a son, Mr. Rochester regained his pride, and his sight was restored in time to see his newborn child. However, Bronte’s personal life didn't have such a turn of events; just weeks after discovering she was pregnant, Bronte developed pneumonia, which soon took her life and that of her unborn child. Bronte’s early death made her novel even more famous, but never could she have imagined how her plain, diminutive Jane would inspire women to be themselves in spite of society’s expectations and pressures, and how the novel once penned under a male pseudonym would remain an enduring classic through changing generations of the women’s movement.