![]() ![]() John's College, Cambridge, and in 1807 was ordained a priest in the Church of England. Her father, Patrick Brontë (1777-1861), a native of County Down in Ireland, had risen above the poverty of his family to become an undergraduate at St. ![]() Her protests grew out of her own experience, which provided much of the material for her fiction though she once insisted that "we only suffer reality to Suggest, never to dictate," her novels include many characters and incidents recognizably drawn from her life, and her heroines have much in common with their creator.Ĭharlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 at Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. ![]() Her strength as a novelist lies in her ability to portray in moving detail the inner struggles of women who are endowed with a powerful capacity for feeling, yet whose social circumstances deny them the opportunity for intellectual or emotional fulfillment. Charlotte Brontë was not in any formal sense a proponent of women's rights, but in her writing she speaks out strongly against the injustices suffered by women in a society that restricts their freedom of action and exploits their dependent status. ![]()
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