Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet and the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for Jane Eyre, which she first published under the pen name Currer Bell in 1847. Drawing on her harsh schooling at Cowan Bridge for Lowood School in that novel, she also wrote Villette, Shirley and The Professor. Brontë married Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854 and died in 1855.