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Charlotte Brontë

1816 - 1855

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Charlotte Nicholls (née Brontë; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (, commonly ), was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Jane Eyre was a success on publication, and has since become known as a classic of English literature. Charlotte was the third of six siblings born to Maria Branwell, the daughter of a Cornish merchant, and Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charlotte Brontë is the 178th most popular writer (down from 122nd in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 76th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Writer.

Charlotte Bronte is most famous for her novel Jane Eyre.

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Among writers, Charlotte Brontë ranks 178 out of 7,302Before her are Nicolas Flamel, André Breton, Wisława Szymborska, William Faulkner, Anna Wintour, and John Milton. After her are Nizami Ganjavi, Stéphane Mallarmé, Fernando Pessoa, Al-Masudi, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Catullus.

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Among people born in 1816, Charlotte Brontë ranks 1After her are Werner von Siemens, Carl Zeiss, Arthur de Gobineau, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Abbas I of Egypt, Paul Reuter, Wazir Akbar Khan, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, and Carl Ludwig. Among people deceased in 1855, Charlotte Brontë ranks 4Before her are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and Nicholas I of Russia. After her are Adam Mickiewicz, Gérard de Nerval, William John Swainson, Adelaide of Austria, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Maria Theresa of Austria, William Parry, and Pavel Nakhimov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Brontë ranks 160 out of 8,785Before her are Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), Neville Chamberlain (1869), Liam Neeson (1952), Anna Wintour (1949), Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), and John Milton (1608). After her are Arthur Henderson (1863), John Macleod (1876), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (1935), Brian Johnson (1947), and Ridley Scott (1937).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Charlotte Brontë ranks 20Before her are Mary Shelley (1797), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), and John Milton (1608). After her are Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Aldous Huxley (1894), Terry Pratchett (1948), William Blake (1757), W. H. Auden (1907), and C. S. Lewis (1898).