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Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, on 21 April 1816. Her family moved to Haworth, Yorkshire, when she was five years old.
She was educated at Roe Head School and at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels.
She published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847. It was a critical and commercial success.
She went on to write three more novels: Shirley (1849), Villette (1853), and The Professor (1857).
She died of tuberculosis on 31 March 1855, at the age of 38.
She is buried in Haworth Cemetery.
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. 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.
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