Bronte, Charlotte and Emily/ Bell, Currer and Ellis
Charlotte Bronte was born 1816 in England, as a daughter of Rev. Patrick Bronte and Maria, his wife. They were five, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell, after they moved and their mother died. When Charlotte was 8, the four elder daughters were sent to a strict religious boarding school. She and her younger sister, Emily, were brought home soon after Maria and Elizabeth died of an illness. The siblings fled in a fantasy world, until Charlotte went to school again in 1831, only to come home to teach her sisters. 1835 she and Emily went to school again, she as governess, her sister as pupil. Emily got homesick and was succeeded by Anne.
After trying for working as a governess, both Emily and Charlotte gave up and decided to open a school with Anne, studied in Brussels and made the preparations. But it didn't work. In 1844, when they finally gave up, Charlotte discovered Emily's poems and published them with some her owns and Anne's under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Charlotte's first novel, The Professor, was rejected by the public, but her next, Jane Eyre, was a best-seller, just like Emily's first and only novel Wuthering Heights in 1847. In 1848, Charlotte and Anne revealed who they were. Charlotte began moving in literary circles after Branwell, Emily and Anne all died of tubacolosis. When Charlotte was proposed marriage, she refused because of a lack of love for Rev. Nicholls and her father's refusal. Her next novel Vilette was published. However, her father suddenly changed his mind and wanted her to marry the Rev., so she did. She finally died, pregnant, 1854, after having found a way to end her life through a pneumonia.