Here are 10 tragic and surprising facts about the entire Bronte family. 1. Maria Bronte’s Last Words before Death Were, “Oh God, My Poor Children!”. Haworth Church and Parsonage by Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, 1857, via The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Research Gate. The matriarch of the Bronte family wasted away slowly following the birth of her Word count of Earthsea series. The word count of Ursula K. Le Guin’s six-book Earthsea series is 480,503. That’s like reading Stephen King’s The Stand: Uncut at 471,485 words and a third of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea at 26,601 words. A Wizard of Earthsea. Ursula K. Le Guin. In a 6 April 1846 letter Charlotte wrote to Aylott and Jones that "C., E., and A. Bell are now preparing for the press a work of fiction, consisting of three distinct and unconnected tales": Charlotte's The Professor (1857), Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's Agnes Grey. Thomas Newby eventually consented to publish the latter two novels On October 16, 1847, Jane Eyre is published by Smith, Elder and Co. Charlotte Brontë, the book’s author, used the pseudonym Currer Bell. The book, about the struggles of an orphan girl who The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien’s fantasy epic is one of the top must-read books out there. Set in Middle Earth – a world full of hobbits, elves, orcs, goblins, and wizards – The Lord of the Rings will take you on an unbelievable adventure. 3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This is where the Brontë children would spend most of their lives. Maria Branwell Brontë died from what was thought to be cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her spinster sister Elizabeth Branwell, who moved to Yorkshire to help the family. In August 1824 Charlotte, along with her sisters Emily, Maria SAnJOY. Charlotte Brontë by Claire Harman (Viking, £25). To order a copy for £20, go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Thu 15 Dec 2011 14.56 EST. A Charlotte Brontë manuscript is heading to France after being sold for £690,850 at Sotheby's in London. The miniature booklet, one of six handwritten "Young Men's Charlotte stood by her belief that inherent worth would be clear to the right observer, though her most unfortunate heroine, Lucy Snowe in Villette, finds it hard to believe that anyone will ever Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet. She first published her works, including Jane Eyre, under the pseudonym (false name) of Currer Bell. In 1846, Charlotte encouraged her sisters to print Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. They did not sell well. Her first novel, The Professor, was rejected A Book of Ryhmes is the last of more than two dozen miniature books created by Charlotte to remain in private hands. It was last seen at auction in New York in 1916 where it was sold for $520. 3. Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Shakespeare, Austen and Charlotte Brontë are sometimes believed to be only close runner ups against Emily Brontë’s literary masterpiece, Wuthering Heights (1847). The book challenged 19th century Victorian norms about social class, gender, religion and morality.

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