Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë, born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England, was an English novelist and poet, renowned as one of the principal figures in 19th-century British literature. She was the third of six children born to Maria (nee Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman. Orphaned of her mother at a young age, Charlotte and her siblings - Emily, Anne, Branwell, and Elizabeth -...