Charlotte Bronte: There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Charlotte Bronte: You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life.
After the death of her sisters, Charlotte's publisher persuaded her to visit London from time to time and to reveal herself as the real 'Currer Bell'. She became a friend of other writers, including Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace Thackeray and Harriet Martineau.
For several months of 1842, Charlotte and Emily lived in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, where Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music.
Charlotte's brother Branwell Bront? hoped to be a portrait painter, but he later became a tutor. He died in September 1848 at the age of thirty-one, of chronic bronchitis made worse by heavy drinking.
During her lifetime, all of Charlotte's published work appeared under the pen-name of Currer Bell.
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