Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Brontë
novelist · Haworth, Yorkshire, England · 1816–1855
A writer who grew up in a parsonage on the Yorkshire moors and worked as a governess before turning to fiction. She and her sisters Emily and Anne published under men's names.
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1847 · The governess Jane, to the master of the house who tries to hold her
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
Jane Eyre
1847
Reader, I married him.
Jane Eyre, the last chapter
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