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ABOUT
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
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Whatever the reasons, or the
ingredients that added to Charlotte's own brew
of discontent, the Reverend Arthur Bell
Nicholls found her living in Haworth,
unmarried and relatively successful when he
approached her and asked her to be his wife.
This she did, with the reluctant permission of
her father, in 1854. Charlotte was
thirty-eight at the time of her marriage. It
has been said that the short period of her
married life was the happiest and most serene
that Charlotte had experienced since her
earliest days of playing with her siblings,
writing down the stories they made up about
their imaginary lives and sharing a love of
literature (Anonymous 93).
For a woman that was caught in
the net of her own disquiet for most of her
life, who had seen almost the whole of her family
precede her in death and who had not taken
full credit for her talents and, or,
successes; death held itself out as a
challenge and an inevitability that was to be
courted until it should 'give in' to the
whimsies of her moods. At a time of her life
when many women would have felt the most
fulfilled - during her first pregnancy,
Charlotte caught what was diagnosed as
pneumonia but might have been more of the
outward ramifications of her own brooding
personality, and died...
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