Charlotte Bronte Biography Part I

Charlotte was born in Yorkshire in 1816, to Patrick Bronte an Irish man and Maria Branwell, who was from Cornwall. She went to a school where the girls were ill treated and half starved, and her older sisters ;Maria and Elizabeth died. Patrick brought her and Emily home. In 1831 she went to school again, to Miss Wooler's school where she was quite happy. She made 2 good friends at the, Ellen Nussey a quiet conventional ladylike girl and Mary Taylor who was a much more interesting radical minded girl who was later to go to New Zealand. Charlotte was the only Bronte girl to make any friends at school. After completing her education Charlotte took a job as a teacher at Miss Woolers’s school, but she didn’t enjoy being a teacher. Her passion was for writing.