... Bronte, minister of the Church of England, and mother Maria Branwell Bronte. Maria Bronte died when Charlotte was only five leaving six children, to be taken care of- (author, 86). " Recognized by literary historians for her contribution to the development of the novel. Her fame and influence rests on four novels ... of the difficulties of an early birth coupled with her sickness of tuberculosis on March 31, 1855 at the age of 39 Charlotte died- (Snodgrass, Cliff Notes). "Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a story based on an orphan who lost both her mother and father to disease; she is l...

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