Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (1816–55) was an English novelist and poet, best known for her groundbreaking Gothic novel Jane Eyre. Born in Yorkshire to an Irish Anglican rector, she was the eldest of the surviving Brontë children. Like many contemporary female writers, she and her sisters Emily and Anne published under male pseudonyms (Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell); Jane Eyre was a great success, and earned her a reputation as one of English literature’s foremost writers.