Tragic events such as Charlotte and Emily Bronte's mother dying before either child had reached the age of five, followed barely three years later by the passing of their two eldest siblings, Maria and Elizabeth, shaped both Bronte sisters' lives drastically. ... The most obvious example of a childhood experience coming out in a Bronte writing is Charlotte's representation of the Lowood School in Jane Eyre compared to her experiences at Cowan Bridge. ... (Bloom, 61) This left Charlotte as the eldest Bronte sibling without a mother causing a lot of the maternal responsibilities t...

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Emily and her sister Charlotte Bronte, studied in Brussels in 1842 because they wanted to start their own school. ... In 1846 Charlotte and Emily published poems, Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. ... Charlotte later wrote the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights. ... He adopted the name Bronte after the Duke of Bronte and eventually attended St. ... The school immortalized by Charlotte as Lowood Hall in Jane Eyre. ...

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