The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure she The poet laureate Robert Southey told her that "literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. Her interest in writing continued, and she corresponded with established authors of the day, seeking their advice. After Anne completed school, Brontë also returned to Haworth, taking occasional positions as a governess. In 1835, Brontë returned to Roe Head as a teacher, while first Emily and then Anne attended the school, though she continued working with Branwell on their Angrian stories. She and Branwell began writing their own stories and poems together, set in the imaginary world of Angria a volume of Brontë's juvenilia in this vein was published posthumously as Legends of Angria (1933). Brontë attended a school near Mirfield, Roe Head, for a year before returning home to tutor her younger siblings. Instead, he promoted self-education and encouraged his children to read the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott, as well as newspapers and monthly magazines. Her father, Patrick Brontë, was a strict Yorkshire clergymen who forbade his offspring from socializing with other children in the village of Haworth, where he had been appointed perpetual curate. Two older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died of consumption in 1825. Her mother, Maria Branwell of Cornwall, died fromĬancer in 1821, at the age of thirty-eight. The eldest surviving daughter in a family of six, she assisted her aunt and her father in raising the three younger children, including her brother Branwell and sisters Emily and Anne. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONīrontë was born Apin Thornton, Yorkshire. Since then, Brontë has been considered by critics as one of the foremost authors of the nineteenth century, an important precursor to feminist novelists, and the creator of intelligent, independent heroines who asserted their rights as women long before those rights were recognized by society. Her first novel, Jane Eyre (1847), was immediately recognized for its originality and power, though it was some time before its author was universally accepted to be a woman, rather than Currer Bell, the masculine pseudonym she consistently employed. As the author of vivid, intensely written novels, Brontë broke the traditional nineteenth-century fictional stereotype of a woman as submissive, dependent, beautiful, and ignorant.
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