The Bronte Family

Yorkshire，England was the setting for two great novels（小說） of the 19th century。 These were Charlotte Bronze’s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte’ s Withering Heights。 The youngest sister， Arne，was also a gifted novelist， and books have the same extraordinary quality as her sisters’。

Their father was Patrick Bronte， born in Ireland。 He moved with his wife，Maria Bronte，and their six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820。 Soon after， Mrs。 Bronte and the two eldest children died， leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy。

Charlotte was born in 1816。 Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820。 Their brother Branwell was born in 1817。 Left to themselves， the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills。 They grew up largely self-educated。 Branwell showed a great interest in drawing。 The girls were determined to earn money for his art education。 They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes。

As children they had all written many stories。 Charlotte，as a young girl，alone wrote 22 books，each with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting。 Therefore， they turned to writing for income。 By 1847， Charlotte had written The Professor ； Emily， Wuthering Heights and Anne， Agnes Grey。 After much difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher（出版商） ， but there was no interest shown in Charlotte’s book。 （It was not published until 1859。） However，one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her work。 Jane Eyre was already started，and she hurriedly finished it。 It was excepted at once； thus each of the sisters had a book published in 1847。

Jane Eyre was immediately successful：the other two， However，did not do so well。 People did not like Wuthering Heights。 They said it was too wild， too animal-like。 But Gradually it came to be considered one of the finest novels in the English languages Emily lived only a short while after the publication of the book， and Anne died in 1849。

Charlotte published Shirley in 1849， and Villette in 1853。 In 1854 she married，Arthur Bell Nicholls。 But only a year later， she died of tuberculosis （肺結核） as her sisters had。

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布朗特家族

約克郡是19世紀英國兩部著名小說的背景。這兩部分別是夏洛蒂布朗特的《簡愛》和艾米麗布朗特的《呼嘯山莊》。她們最小的妹妹安妮也是位有才華的小說家，她的小說的卓越也不亞於兩個姐姐。（這裡有點不順，你再看看。）

她們的父親帕特里克布朗特生於愛爾蘭。1820年，他帶著妻子Maria Bronte和六個年幼的孩子遷到約克郡的Haworth。不久，布朗特夫人和兩個年長的孩子死了，只剩父親來撫養三個女孩和一個男孩。

夏洛蒂生於1816年，艾米麗生於1818，安妮生於1820，她們的兄弟BRANWELL生於1817年。只剩下他們幾個了，孩子們就寫故事，講故事走遍了幾個山頭。他們大部分是自學的。BRANWELL很喜歡繪畫，姐妹們就擔任教師或是做家教來賺錢供給他接受美學教育。