{"id":3531,"date":"2018-03-31T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2018-03-29T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T19:20:47","slug":"on-this-day-charlotte-bronte-dies-1855","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2018\/03\/31\/on-this-day-charlotte-bronte-dies-1855\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: Charlotte Bront\u00eb Dies, 1855"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On this Day: Charlotte Bront\u00eb dies, 1855<\/p>\n

\"BookPerhaps no family has left\u00a0the same kind of mark on English literature as the Bront\u00eb sisters. Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), and Anne (1820-1849) were all accomplished poets and authors, best known for Charlotte\u2019s Jane Eyre<\/em> (1847), Emily\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/em> (1847), and Anne\u2019s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall <\/em>(1848). \u00a0The Bront\u00eb sisters were three of six siblings who grew up in the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. They had two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, both of whom died during childhood. They also had a brother, Patrick Branwell (1817-1848), who was an artist and architect.<\/p>\n

\"TitleCharlotte was the eldest of the surviving Bront\u00eb siblings, and the Bront\u00eb who enjoyed the most success for her literary work. After publishing Jane Eyre<\/em> under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte published two more novels, Shirley<\/em> (1849) and Villette<\/em> (1853), before marrying Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854. Less than a year into her marriage, Charlotte died due\u00a0to complications from tuberculosis and hyperemesis gravidarum (severe morning sickness). Her first novel, The Professor<\/em>, which was originally rejected for publication, was published posthumously in 1857.<\/p>\n

\"BookplateThis copy of Bront\u00eb\u2019s second novel Shirley<\/em> belonged to Carl Sandburg\u2019s oldest daughter, Margaret Sandburg (1911-1997). Margaret served as the librarian at Connemara and helped edit many of her father\u2019s works. In a 1953 letter to Alfred Harcourt, Carl Sandburg wrote: \u201cMargaret has become widely read, a scholar who often surprises me with her erudition, knows the Bible and Shakespeare better than I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlotte Bront\u00eb. Shirley<\/em>. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d. SNDBRG 823 B78S<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this Day: Charlotte Bront\u00eb dies, 1855 Perhaps no family has left\u00a0the same kind of mark on English literature as the Bront\u00eb sisters. Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), and Anne (1820-1849) were all accomplished poets and authors, best known for Charlotte\u2019s Jane Eyre (1847), Emily\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne\u2019s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). \u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":3533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3539,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}