Charlotte Bront biography/events

21 April 1816 - Charlotte Bront, the third daughter in the family, was born in
Thornton, near Bradford, in Yorkshire.
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23 April 1814 - Maria Bront, the eldest of the Bront children, was baptized.
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8 February 1815 - Elizabeth Bront, the second of the Bront children, was born.
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26 June 1817 - Patrick Branwell Bront, the only son of the family, was born: he was
known as Branwell.
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15 September 1821 - The Bronts' mother, Maria Bront, died at the age of thirty-eight,
having fallen ill in January with cancer, probably of the uterus.
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10 August 1824 - Charlotte Bront arrived at the strict and parsimonious Clergy
Daughters' School in Cowan Bridge, Tunstall parish, the original of Lowood School in
Jane Eyre.
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February 1825 - Maria Bront, the original of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre, was removed
from the Clergy Daughters' School, seriously ill with consumption. She died at home in
early May.
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1 June 1825 - Emily and Charlotte Bront were removed permanently from the Clergy
Daughters' School, after their consumptive elder sister Elizabeth had been sent home the
previous day.

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17 January 1831-June 1832 Charlotte Bront distinguished herself at Miss Wooler's
Roe Head School, on the outskirts of Mirfield, near Hartshead, Yorkshire.

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17 May 1832 - Charlotte Bront expressed her satisfaction that the Lords had thrown out
the Reform Bill, which she opposed though her father supported it.
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Summer 1832 Patrick Bront opened a National Church Sunday School at Haworth,
to which Emily, and Anne, and Charlotte Bront contributed by teaching.
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29 July 1835 Charlotte Bront reluctantly returned to Miss Wooler's Roe Head School
as a teacher.
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December 1837 Anne and Charlotte Bront apparently experienced crises of faith
around this time; Anne was also seriously ill.
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Late May 1838 Charlotte Bront left her position as a teacher at Roe Head, convinced
that her life depended on relief of her depressed health and spirits.
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March 1839 Charlotte Bront declined a marriage proposal from the Reverend Henry
Nussey, the brother of her friend Ellen.
301 May-July 1839 Charlotte Bront took a temporary position as a governess not far
from Haworth.

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Late Summer 1839 Charlotte Bront gained her first experience of rail travel and a
first, inspiring sight of the sea during a holiday at Bridlington, Yorkshire, on the east
coast, with her friend Ellen Nussey.
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March 1841 Charlotte Bront began working as governess for 20 a year at
Upperwood House, near Rawdon.
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July 1841 The Bront sisters decided to set up a school of their own.
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8 February 1842 Emily and Charlotte Bront left for further schooling in Brussels,
stopping for three days in London en route.
15 February-6 November 1842 Emily and Charlotte Bront were pupils at the
Catholic Pensionnat Heger in Brussels.
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29 October 1842 Elizabeth Branwell, the aunt who had stepped in after the death of
the Bronts' mother, died; Emily and Charlotte Bront returned from Brussels.
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27 January 1843 Having mourned her aunt, Charlotte Bront returned to the
Pensionnat Heger as a teacher, travelling alone to Brussels.
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December 1843 Charlotte Bront returned to Haworth from Brussels.
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Summer 1844 Charlotte Bront unsuccessfully attempted to establish a boarding
school for young ladies at the Haworth Parsonage.

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Autumn 1846 Branwell Bront began a downward spiral of drinking, debts, and
dissipation that hastened his death.
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September 1848 Branwell Bront died of tuberculosis.
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23 May 1849 Charlotte Bront reluctantly set out to accompany Anne, whose health
was failing rapidly, to Scarborough, together with Ellen Nussey.
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November 1849 Elizabeth Gaskell initiated her friendship with Charlotte Bront by
her sympathetic comments about the sickbed scenes in Shirley.
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29 November 15 December 1849 Charlotte Bront visited London, where she met
Thackeray and Harriet Martineau, both of whom she admired.
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End of May 1850 Charlotte Bront again visited the Smiths in London, where she met
a number of young female writers, among others Anne Thackeray and Adelaide Procter.
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25 June 1850 Charlotte Bront went from London to her friend Ellen Nussey's in
Yorkshire; from there she went on to Edinburgh to join her friends George Smith and his
sister Eliza for a couple of days.
Mid-July 1850 Charlotte Bront returned home after visiting London, Yorkshire, and
Edinburgh.
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August 1850 Charlotte Bront visited her neighbours Sir James and Lady KayShuttleworth in the Lake District, where she met Elizabeth Gaskell.

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16 December 1850 Charlotte Bront visited Harriet Martineau at her home The
Knoll, in the Lake District, where she asked her host to mesmerize her.
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4 April 1851 Charlotte Bront received her third proposal when James Taylor, the
managing clerk of Smith, Elder, and Co., asked her to marry him; she refused.
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Late May 1851 Charlotte Bront visited London, where her relationship with her
publisher and friend George Smith turned away from intimacy.
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27 June 1851 Charlotte Bront visited Elizabeth Gaskell in Manchester on her way
back to Haworth.
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Late May-Late June 1852 Charlotte Bront returned to Filey, near Scarborough, to try
to improve her health and to visit Anne's grave
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13 December 1852 Arthur Bell Nicholls asked Charlotte Bront to marry him; she
declined, and her father violently opposed the match.
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From 5 January 1853 Charlotte Bront spent a month in London where she visited a
range of institutions including prisons, hospitals, financial sights in the City, and the
General Post Oce.
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June 1853 Charlotte Bront's father suered a second and quite debilitating stroke.
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19 September 1853 Elizabeth Gaskell visited Charlotte Bront at Haworth for four
days.

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1 May 1854 Charlotte Bront returned Gaskell's visit with a four-day stay in
Manchester.
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29 June 1854 Charlotte Bront married curate Arthur Bell Nicholls. They
honeymooned in Wales and his native Ireland.
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January 1855 Charlotte Bront was pregnant and became ill.
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31 March 1855 Charlotte Bront, Mrs Arthur Bell Nicholls, died at Haworth of a
chill, which was called tuberculosis. It is now generally supposed that she died because she
was weakened by exceptionally heavy morning sickness in her pregnancy.
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