Today is Charlotte Brontë’s birthday.
Do you love her poetry, or know her only through Jane Eyre?
Her first novel was rejected, but the next changed #literature. She had to publish under a man’s name, Currer Bell, because in the 1840s a woman writer could be dismissed before anyone had even read the first page.
One of the most famous authentic portraits of Charlotte was drawn by George Richmond in 1850 👇
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