Charlotte Bronte's Major Accomplishments

“Charlotte Bronte’s writing became her passport to the highest of literary circles” (“Famous”). Bronte was one of the most well known writers of Victorian Age. From novels to poetry, Bronte did it all. However before Bronte could reach this success, she had to endure a tough childhood and adult life. Charlotte Bronte’s writing was a form of expression for the tragic events she experienced in her life as shown in one of her poems “On the Death of Anne Bronte.”
Bronte was born in 1816 in Hartshead, England (“Famous”). Her parents were Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell (Rosengarten). Bronte’s family was large with six children. She had two older sisters named Maria and Elizabeth, a brother named Patrick born in 1817, and two younger
Her first novel, Jane Eyre, written in 1847 is her most well known (Rosengarten). The other majors works were her novels: Shirley, Villette, the Professor (Gerin). Bronte began writing stories as a child which became the “apprenticeship” for her adult writings (Gerin). As a child, she was influenced by “Blackboard’s Magazine” and poets of the Romantic Revival (Gerin). “Her childish writings already show two distinct characteristics of her work as a whole: the closely observed, scrupulously factual relations of domestic detail and the extravagant adventures of the spirit in which she ranged in fantasy world” (Gerin). “Her explorations of emotional repression and feminine psyche introduced a new depth and intensity to the study of character and motive in the fiction” (Rosengarten). Bronte wrote with passionate involvement of the individual in every situation for both men and women (Gerin). Bronte also could portray detail of the struggles women faced. Bronte’s writing “speaks out strongly against the injustices suffered by the women in a society that restricts their freedom of action and exploits their dependent status” (Rosengarten). “Her strong imagination was stimulated far in advance of her experience of life, and resulted in a precocious talent” (Gerin). Her own experience was mostly material for her fiction, as she states “We suffer reality to Suggest, never to dictate”
Death was recurrent event in Bronte’s life. Multiple losses shaped her childhood and later shaped her writing. Writing was an outlet for Bronte to express herself. One of the many deaths that affected her life was the loss of her beloved sister Anne. Charlotte Bronte’s On the Death on of Anne Bronte explores her feelings and attitude about the grief she experienced when dealing with the loss of her sister and other loved ones.
Although it is not officially known, it is assumed the poem is about the death of her sister based on the title. Anne Bronte died in 1849 of tuberculosis at age twenty nine (Bock). As shown by the poem, both girls had a very close bond. At the time, Anne’s death made Charlotte an only child (Bock). This would have been a very traumatic event especially after the losses of her other siblings and mother. The poem, written in the Victorian age, was elegy consisting of 4