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copyright 2000, Sirpa Grierson
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Charlotte Bronte: A Brief Biography
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/bronte/cbronte/brontbio.htmlCharlotte Bronte Chronology
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/bronte/cbronte/brontetl.html
A detailed chronology of Bronte's life.Charlotte Bronte
Barratt, David. "Charlotte Bronte." Masterplots Complete 1999 CD-ROM. Salem Press, Inc. 1999.
This article is about Charlotte Bronte and gives bibliography information on her.Introduction to the Brontes
Dinsdale, Ann and White, Kathryn. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. The Bronte Society (1998). 4-5.
Provides useful background information about the Bronte sisters, including what influenced their writing and how they fit into Victorian society.
Life and Death in Haworth
Dinsdale, Ann and White, Kathryn. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. The Bronte Society (1998). 9.
Provides interesting context into the conditions in which the Brontes lived and helps to explain their early deaths.
Significant Rooms in the Haworth Parsonage (Bronte home)
Dinsdale, Ann and White, Kathryn. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. The Bronte Society (1998). 19, 21, 25, 28-29.
Helps to explain the context at home in which the Brontes lived and wrote, focusing on Charlotte. Also describes the room and relationship of Charlotte to her husband, Arthur Bell Nichols, giving added insight into Charlotte’s character and what perhaps inspired her love relationships in her writing.Charlotte’s Treasues
Dinsdale, Ann and White, Kathryn. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. The Bronte Society (1998). 41.
Has interesting anecdotes about Charlotte and her possessions. Helps one to understand Charlotte as a real person who lived and loved.A Family History
Dinsdale, Ann and White, Kathryn. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. The Bronte Society (1998). 47-51.
A history of the Bronte family. Describes the sisters’ personal lives and connects them to their writing. Includes many details about their efforts to publish.Scribblemania: The Early Writings
Dinsdale, Ann and White, Kathryn. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. The Bronte Society (1998). 52-54.
Can be used to show students that Charlotte and her sisters were once creative young people just like themselves. Shows that writing must be a honed, practiced skill.Summary of Jane Eyre and picture
Meet Charlotte Bronte
Dinsdale, Ann and White, Kathryn. Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth. The Bronte Society (1998). 57-58.
Connects Charlotte’s most famous novel to her own life and character traits, demonstrating that authors usually write what they know. Provides a wonderful summary as well, introducing themes and other elements of the novel.
www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/jane_eyre.pdf (page 9)
More condensed autobiographical information but really awesome quote by Charlotte that you could use as a writing prompt
The Victorian Era and the Bronte Sisters
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BronteSistersLinks/
This is a huge collection of links about the Victorian Eran and the Bronte Sisters!
Novels
Information compiled by Laina Hall and Megan Reese
