Charlotte Brontë is a British author and poet who, along with her two sisters Anne and Emily, published literature under fake names as well as their own. She primarily wrote novels and is best known for Jane Eyre, which was first published in 1847.

Charlotte's official cause of death was determined to be tuberculosis.The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Th Death of Charlotte Bronte (1991) But many speculated that the real cause of death was to be malnourishment and dehydration due to pregnancy complicationsBiography: Charlotte Bronte (1999)

• 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

• 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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