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Charlotte Brontë on the death of her sister

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Shaun Usher
Mar 31, 2022
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The Brontë Sisters by Patrick Brontë. (VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images.)

Charlotte Brontë was the eldest of the Brontë sisters, three creative English siblings born in the nineteenth century whose most successful novels, all of which were published in the space of nine months, are now considered classics: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heigh…

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