Charlotte Bronte
1816 - 1855
Charlotte Bronte was sister to Anne and Emily Bronte. Also in the family was their brother Branwell (1817-1848) and two sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who both died in childhood. The family moved to Haworth, now part of Keighley, in 1820 when their father, Patrick Bronte (1777-1861), became Rector there. After their mother died from cancer her sister came to look after the children. Their childhood, spent in the sole companionship of one another on the wild Yorkshire moors of England, was happy. The children invented two fantasy worlds, Gondal and Angria, about which they wrote stories and poems.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, a contemporary and friend of Charlotte Bronte, wrote a biography of her called Life of Charlotte Bronte.