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Unit9 Charlotte Bront? Jane Eyre The Bronte sisters Charlotte married her father’s curate, but she died less than a year later. The story of the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, all literary, all talented and all dying young, is one of the saddest pages in the history of English literature. They were the daughters of a poor clergyman in a little village of Haworth, Yorkshire, in northern England. Their mother died in 1821 after giving birth to six children (5girls and one boy). In 1824 all the girls except the youngest one were sent to a charity school, a veritable prison wher