Charlotte Bronte

The Mahalo Top 7

1. The Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Society: Charlotte Brontë
2. Wikipedia: Charlotte Brontë
3. The Brussels Brontë Group
4. The Victorian Web: Charlotte Brontë: An Overview  
5. Haworth Village: Charlotte Brontë  
6. Cornell University Library: Reminiscences of Charlotte Brontë  
7. BBC Woman's Hour: The Brontës in Brussels

Free Charlotte Brontë Works Online

• Project Gutenburg: Charlotte Brontë Books Online
• The University of Adelaide Library: Charlotte Brontë Books Online
• eBookTakeAway.com: Charlotte Brontë Books Online
• Wikisource: Charlotte Brontë Books Online
• The Literature Network: Charlotte Brontë Books Online  

Charlotte Brontë Study Guides and Literary Criticism

• eNotes: Charlotte Brontë Study Guides  
• CliffsNotes: Charlotte Brontë Study Guides
• SparkNotes: Jane Eyre Study Guide
• Bartleby.com: The Brontës Study Guides
• Google Book Search: The Adytum of the Heart: The Literary Criticism of Charlotte Brontë
• Plattsburgh State Faculty and Reseach Web Sites: Brontë Contemporary Criticism

Charlotte Brontë Biographies and Profiles

• Project Gutenburg: Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter
• Project Gutenburg: Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë Vol 1 | Vol 2
• North East Wales Institute of Higher Education: Charlotte Bronte’s Life and Times... (244 KB)  
• Books and Writers: Charlotte Brontë Biography

Charlotte Brontë Quotations

• Wikiquote: Charlotte Brontë Quotes
• BrainyQuote: Charlotte Brontë Quotes
• The Quotations Page: Charlotte Brontë Quotes
• ThinkExist.com: Charlotte Brontë Quotes
• Notable Quotes: Charlotte Brontë Quotes

Charlotte Brontë News and Articles

• Google News: Charlotte Brontë
• Times Online: Charlotte Bronte News
• The Lakeland Ledger: 'Jane Eyre': Feminism's Fictional Powerhouse (2007)
• Guardian Unlimited: Downstairs Upstairs (2007)
• BBC News: Our Loss is Indeed Great (2005)
• BBC News: Charlotte Brontë 'Poisoned Sisters' (1999)
• Western Michigan University: Advice to a Young Writer, Given and Taken (1837)  

Charlotte Brontë Photos and Videos

• Google Image Search: Charlotte Brontë
• Wikimedia: Charlotte Brontë Portraits
• Haworth Village: Inside the Brontë Parsonage
• YouTube & Google Video: Charlotte Brontë Search
• YouTube: Brontes of Haworth: Charlotte and Monsieur Heger (Time: 02:11)
• YouTube: Jane Eyre Walk (Time: 03:40)

Charlotte Brontë Fan Sites, Blogs and Message Boards

• Brontë Parsonage Blog
• Brontëana: A Brontë Studies Weblog
• Brontë Blog: A Breath of Fresh Eyre
• Brontë Spirit: Haworth Parish Church and Brontë Society Partnership
• Yahoo! Groups: Dedicated to the Lives and Works of the Bronte Family
• Fan Site: The Brontë Family

Charlotte Brontë Books and Merchandise

• The Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Society: Shop
• Amazon.com: Charlotte Brontë Merchandise
• Barnes & Noble: Charlotte Brontë Books  
• eBay: Charlotte Brontë Merchandise
• Maney Publishing: Brontë Studies Journal
• AllPosters.com: Charlotte Brontë Posters
• CafePress.com: Charlotte Brontë T-Shirts & Gifts

Charlotte Brontë Personal Timeline

• April 21, 1816: Born
• 1820: Charlotte's father appointed perpetual curate of Haworth
• 1821: Charlotte's mother dies.
• 1824: Charlotte, and sisters Maria, Elizabeth, Emily enroll at Clergy Daughters' School, Cowan Bridge
• 1825: Maria and Elizabeth die; Charlotte and Emily return home
• 1829: Charlotte writes the first accounts of the saga of Glasstown and Angria
• 1831: Charlotte enrolls at Miss Wooler's School, Roe Head
• 1832: Completes schooling and returns home to tutor sisters
• 1835: Returns to Roe Head as a teacher
• 1838: Resigns position and returns home
• 1842: Charlotte and Emily enroll in Pensionnat Heger, Brussels; Aunt Branwell's death brings girls home
• 1843: Charlotte returns to Brussels to teach English and to study
• 1844: Leaves Brussels; Bronte sisters attempt without success to start a school
• 1848: Branwell and Emily die
• 1849: Anne dies
• 1854: Marries Arthur Bell Nicholls on June 29th
• March 31, 1855: Charlotte dies of tuberculosis and complications in pregnancy

Charlotte Brontë Publications Timeline

• 1846: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
• 1847: Jane Eyre
• 1849: Shirley
• 1853: Villette
• 1857: The Professor
• 1925: The Twelve Adventurers and Other Stories, a collection of Charlotte's juvenilia
• 1931-38: 19 Volumes of The Shakespeare Head Bronte
• 1933: Legends of Angria, a collection of Charlotte's juvenilia
• 1971: Five Novelettes, a collection of Charlotte's juvenilia

Notable Charlotte Brontë Adaptations

•   Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1910: Jane Eyre
• 1915: The Castle of Thornfield
• 1918: Woman and Wife
• 1943: I Walked with a Zombie
• 1944: Jane Eyre (Orson Welles)  
• 1970: Villette
• 1973: Jane Eyre
• 1983: Jane Eyre (Timothy Dalton)
• 1996: Jane Eyre (Franco Zeffirelli)
• 1997: Jane Eyre (Samantha Morton)
• 2000: Jane Eyre, The Musical
• 2006: Jane Eyre (Toby Stephens)  

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