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  1. Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816 in Market Street, Thornton (in a house now known as the Brontë Birthplace), west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the third of the six children of Maria (née Branwell) and Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

  2. Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton in Yorkshire, England, on April 21, 1816, the third of Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell's six children. Her father was an Anglican minister who moved the family to Haworth, also in Yorkshire, in 1820 after finding work at a church there.

  3. The first Brontë children to be born to rector Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria were Maria (1814–1825) and Elizabeth (1815–1825), who both died at young ages due to disease. Charlotte, Emily and Anne were then born within a time period of approximately four years.

    • Charlotte was the third child of the six Brontë children. Among the Brontë children, Charlotte was the third child only preceded by Elizabeth and Maria, while the only son Branwell, Emily, and Anne came after her.
    • Her surname wasn’t Brontë. Charlotte’s father, Patrick, is said to have originally hailed from Ireland – from a poor farmer’s family with the name Brunty.
    • As a child, she was shortsighted. Charlotte, from her early adulthood to death, suffered from mild myopia, a condition which is widely speculated she got from her father – who also had sight issues.
    • As an adult, she didn’t grow past four feet six inches. Someone who doesn’t know nor has read about Charlotte’s actual physical identity may find it difficult to picture the author as anything less than physical elegance, grace, and style.
  4. Jul 26, 2018 · Quite apart from the fact that we have no evidence for incest in the Brontë family, the incest myth is problematic because it makes Branwell ultimately responsible for Wuthering Heights.

  5. Family and friends. Charlotte was the third of the six Bronte children. She was just five years old when her mother died, and her mother's elder sister Elizabeth Branwell moved into the Parsonage to look after the children.

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