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| | CHARLOTTE BRONTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Charlotte Bronte, a very well-known English novelist, was born April 21, 1816, at Thomton, Yorkshire, the daughter of Patrick Bronte, later curate of Haworth, whose father was an Irish peasant by the name of Brunty or Prunty. |
 | | Later she became a governess in various private families, and still later taught in a private school in Brussels, where she fell in love with the master who was already married and not at all interested in his ill-dressed and homely English teacher. |
 | | Her brother Bramwell, an embryo artist who had taken to drink and opium and finally became mentally unbalanced, died in September, 1848; her sister Emily died in December of the same year, and Anne in May, 1849. |
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