Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Anne Brontë, by Charlotte Brontë, 1834

* 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author ( d. 1855 )

Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding use Abigail in this generic sense, as does Charlotte Brontë.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria ( née Branwell ) and her husband Patrick Brontë ( formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty ), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

There is evidence to suggest that Charlotte died from typhus which she may have caught from Tabitha Ackroyd, the Brontë household's oldest servant, who died shortly before her.

The fragment of a new novel she had been working on in her last years has been twice completed by recent authors, the more famous version being Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Brontë by Clare Boylan in 2003.

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857.

* Emma, unfinished ; Charlotte Brontë wrote only 20 pages of the manuscript, published posthumously in 1860.

:* Emma, by " Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady ", published 1980 ; although this has been attributed to Elizabeth Goudge, the actual author was Constance Savery.

File: Painting of Brontë sisters. png | Branwell Brontë, Painting of the 3 Brontë Sisters, l to r Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë.

File: Charlotte Brontë. jpg | A postum idealized portrait by Duyckinick, 1873, based on a drawing by George Richmond

* The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, 3 volumes edited by Margaret Smith

* The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell

* Charlotte Brontë, Winifred Gérin

* Charlotte Brontë: a passionate life, Lyndal Gordon

* The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets, Dennis Low ( Chapter 1 contains a revisionist contextualisation of Robert Southey's infamous letter to Charlotte Brontë )

* Charlotte Brontë: Unquiet Soul, Margot Peters

One of the terms of the marriage contract agreed to by Alexei was that while any forthcoming children were to be raised in the Orthodox faith, Charlotte herself was allowed to retain her Protestant faith ( an agreement that did not sit well at all with Alexei's followers ).

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

She was the namesake of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA and the county in which it lies as well as Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

It is separated from the mainland of British Columbia by Johnstone Strait, and Queen Charlotte Strait on the northeast, and by the Strait of Georgia on the southeast, which along with the Strait of Juan de Fuca along its southwest separate it from the United States ( the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca are now officially also part of the Salish Sea, which includes Puget Sound as well ).

Strickland would go on to design many other American public buildings in this style, including financial structures such as the New Orleans, Dahlonega, Mechanics National Bank ( also in Philadelphia ) and Charlotte branch mints in the mid-to-late 1830s, as well as the second building for the main U. S. Mint in Philadelphia in 1833.

Historic places in Charlotte County include the Old Charlotte County Courthouse as well as those on the List of Registered Historic Places in Charlotte County.

The Atlantic Coast Conference's four North Carolina teams, as well as local teams Charlotte, Davidson and Johnson C. Smith, have large and loyal fan bases in the city.

" The name had been used for Charlotte sports teams before, including a minor league baseball team that was located in the city from 1901 to 1972, as well as a World Football League team that played there from 1974 to 1975.

Although heavily wooded in many rural areas and retaining a predominantly rural character in its western sector, York County is part of the greater Charlotte metropolitan region and includes Rock Hill, the county ’ s largest city, as well as the smaller cities of Tega Cay and York and the smaller towns of Clover, Fort Mill, Hickory Grove, McConnells, Sharon, and Lake Wylie.

1925 )-based in Union City, New Jersey, founded by friars from the Tuscan region of Italy to minister to Italian immigrants, with 12 communities on the East Coast, primarily in New Jersey, with parishes also in the Bronx, New York, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina, Tampa, Florida, and Wilmington, Delaware.

Kovalevskaya wrote several non-mathematical works as well, including a memoir, A Russian Childhood, plays ( in collaboration with Duchess Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler ) and a partly autobiographical novel, Nihilist Girl ( 1890 ).

MacNeille has provided voices on many other television shows and cartoons such as Rugrats ( as Charlotte Pickles ), Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers ( as Chip and Gadget ), Histeria !, Hey Arnold !, as well as dubbing work on English language anime translations.

The Charlotte Performing Arts Center hosts nationally-known events, as well as rental events and Charlotte Public School District events.

The system also links to Charlotte Area Transit System ( CATS ) via an express service as well as at regular service connection points.

Jonesville is part of the Piedmont Triad radio and television market, but many broadcasts from the Charlotte and Winston-Salem markets can be received as well.

It is far and away the hardiest member of its genus, and can grow well in western Europe ( north to the Faroe Islands and Smøla in western Norway ), the west coast of North America ( north to the Queen Charlotte Islands in Canada ) and locally on the east coast as well, and in New Zealand and southeastern Australia.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Fouquier de Tinville, like Maximilien Robespierre, was known for his ruthless radicalism, and he seldom failed to secure a conviction ; he acted as prosecutor in the trials of, among many others, Charlotte Corday, Marie Antoinette, the Girondist leadership, Antoine Barnave, Jacques Hébert and his supporters, as well as that of the Dantonists.

An American student named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of his evident aversion to people and had at last succeeded in getting him to talk to her.

Some historians speculate that it was his conservative powerbase's disapproval of his foreign, non-Orthodox bride, more so than her appearance, that caused Alexei to spurn Charlotte.

Charlotte returned to Roe Head as a teacher on 29 July 1835 accompanied by Emily as a pupil ; her tuition largely financed by Charlotte's teaching.

Anne and Charlotte do not appear to have been close while at Roe Head ( Charlotte's letters almost never mention her ) but Charlotte was concerned about her sister's health.

Charlotte wrote to her father who took Anne home where she remained while she recovered.

Charlotte is quite aware of her husband's infidelity, but Carl-Magnus is too absorbed in his suspicions of Desiree to talk to her (" In Praise of Women ").

Anne does not want to accept the invitation, but Charlotte convinces her to do so to heighten the contrast between the older woman and the young teenager.

Carl-Magnus plans to challenge Fredrik to a duel, while Charlotte hopes to seduce the lawyer to make her husband jealous and end his philandering.

Charlotte confesses her plan to Fredrik, and the two commiserate on a bench.

Victorious, Carl-Magnus begins to romance Charlotte, granting her wish at last.

In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.

The school's poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria ( born 1814 ) and Elizabeth ( born 1815 ), who died of tuberculosis in June 1825.

Soon after their deaths, her father removed Charlotte and Emily from the school.

At home in Haworth Parsonage Charlotte acted as " the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters ".

Between 1831 and 1832 Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head in Mirfield, where she met her lifelong friends and correspondents, Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor.