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英国现实主义小说夏洛特·布朗蒂 《简爱》 Charlotte Bronte Was born of Irish ancestry in 1816 Charlotte’s Religious Views Father, Patrick Bronte, was an Anglican clergyman Due to her upbringing, she often wrote about religious hypocrisy—those who preach one doctrine but live by another The Bronte Sisters Charlotte had four sisters and one brother. After their mother’s death, Bront? and her sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters’ School. The food was bad Discipline was harsh Disease was rampant Bronte’s two older sisters (Maria Elizabeth) died of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis Tuberculosis was a common killer during the Victorian era. Tuberculosis often destroys its victims’ lungs, resulting in a bloody cough. If untreated, sufferers may die of tuberculosis because their lungs are so badly damaged. All in the Family The Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge would became the model for Lowood, the fictitious girls’ school in Jane Eyre. Charlote’s sisters Anne and Emily Bronte both became successful writers. In 1846, Charlotte her sisters started publishing poems and began writing novels: The Professor was Charlotte’s attempt to fictionalize her love for a college professor she had met at Brussels. In 1847 Wuthering Heights was sister Emily’s first success. Charlotte followed with Jane Eyre. Charlotte’s brother, Branwell, was a gifted painter. All 3 Bronte Sisters… Used a masculine pen name because women writers were not taken seriously at that time in Victorian England. Charlotte used the name Currer Bell. Marriage Bells In 1854 Charlotte married her fathers curate, Arthur Bell Nichols. The next year, she became pregnant, then ill. She died a month before her 39th birthday. Juvenilia The Green Dwarf The Green Dwarf, A Tale of the Perfect Tense was written in 1833 under the pseudonym Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley. It shows the influence of Walter Scott, and Bront?s modifications to her earlier gothic style have led Christine Alexander to comment that