Charlotte Bronte Chronology

"I am in the Kitchen of the Parsonage house Haworth. Tabby the servant is washing up after breakfast and Anne my youngest sister is kneeling on a chair looking at some cakes which Tabby has been baking for us. Emily is in the parlour brushing it, papa and Branwell are gone to Keighley. Aunt is up stairs in her room and I am sitting by the table writing this in the kitchen."
Charlotte Bronte - The History of the Year.

22/08/1830

Charlotte Bronte wrote her poem "Morning".

29/07/1835

Charlotte Bronte went as teacher to Miss Wooler's school Roe Head. Emily accompanied her as a pupil.

12/03/1837

Charlotte Bronte received a letter from Robert Southey - The Poet Laureate: "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life: & it ought not to be."

26/03/1839

Charlotte Bronte wrote her poem "Life".

02/03/1841

Charlotte Bronte became a governess for the White family who lived at Upperwood House, Rawdon, near Bradford.

12/12/1841

Charlotte Bronte wrote her poem "Passion".

29/12/1843

Charlotte Bronte received a Diploma from the Pensionnat at Brussels.

01/01/1844

Charlotte Bronte left the Penssionat at Brussels for home. While studying there she had received a Diploma.

03/01/1844

Charlotte Bronte arrived back home at Haworth Parsonage, she had been studying at the Heger's Pensionnat at Brussels.

06/02/1846

Charlotte Bronte sent a manuscript of poems to Messrs. Aylott and Jones publishers. They used the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.

06/04/1846

Charlotte Bronte wrote to publisher Aylott & Jones:

"C.E & A Bell are now preparing for the Press a work of fiction - consisting of three distinct and unconnected tales which may be published together as a work of 3 vols. of ordinary novel-size, or separately as single vols - as shall be deemed most advisable."

07/05/1846

First printed copies of the Book of "Poems" by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte arrived at the Parsonage. They had used the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.

04/07/1846

The published Bronte Poems using the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell received favourable criticism. Only two copies were sold.

15/12/1846

Charlotte Bronte wrote:
"I hope you are not frozen up; the cold here is dreadful. I do not remember such a series of North-Pole days. England might really have taken a slide up into the Arctic Zone; the sky looks like ice; the earth is frozen; the wind is as keen as a two-edged blade."

15/07/1847

Charlotte Bronte sent the manuscript of the "Professor" to the publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill. It was not published.

24/08/1847

Charlotte Bronte's manuscript of Jane Eyre was sent to the publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill.

16/10/1847

Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

19/10/1847

Charlotte Bronte received copies of her published novel "Jane Eyre".

10/12/1847

Charlotte Bronte received payment for her novel Jane Eyre which was published on 16th October 1847.

08/07/1848

Charlotte and Anne Bronte visited London to meet their publisher and revealed their true identity. The Bronte sisters had been using the pseudonyms Acton Currer and Bell.

29/08/1849

Charlotte Bronte completed her novel Shirley.

26/10/1849

Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

22/05/1850

Charlotte Bronte wrote of her dead sister Emily Bronte:

"For my part I am free to walk on the moors - but when I go out there alone - everything reminds me of the times when others were with me and then the moors seem a wilderness, featureless, solitary, saddening - My sister Emily had a particular love for them , and there is not a knoll of heather, not a branch of fern, not a young bilberry leaf not a fluttering lark or linnet but reminds me of her."

09/06/1850

Charlotte Bronte met the Duke of Wellington at the Chapel Royal London.

13/06/1850

Charlotte Bronte sat for her portrait. She was drawn by the artist George Redmond.

29/03/1852

Charlotte Bronte completed the first draft of her novel "Villette".

23/05/1852

Charlotte Bronte visited Filey staying at the same lodgings she and Ellen Nussey had stayed after Anne's death. Charlotte went to visit Anne’s grave and discovered a number of errors on the Gravestone, in particular Anne's age, the date on the stone is 28, she was 29 when she died.

13/12/1852

Arthur Bell Nicholls proposed to Charlotte Bronte. Charlotte informed her father who was not pleased about the marriage proposal. She wrote to Nicholls rejecting him.

28/01/1853

Charlotte Bronte's novel Villette was published.

19/09/1853

Elizabeth Gaskell who wrote "The life of Charlotte Bronte" visited Charlotte Bronte at Haworth.

11/04/1854

Arthur Bell Nicholls proposed to Charlotte Bronte who accepted.

29/06/1854

Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls were married at Haworth Church at 8.00am in the morning. 2004 wedding re-enactment here...

01/08/1854

Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls returned to Haworth from their honeymoon in Ireland. They were married on 29th June 1854.

29/11/1854

Charlotte Bronte and her husband Arthur Nicholls walked to what is now known as the Bronte waterfalls. Charlotte had wished to see the waterfall in all its glory as heavy rain and melting snow had turned the water into a "perfect torrent".

30/01/1855

Charlotte Bronte was examined by Dr Mc Turk and was found to be pregnant.

31/03/1855

Charlotte Bronte died at Haworth, she was 38 years of age.
There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping
A remembrance in one's heart:

Parting by Charlotte Bronte

04/04/1855

Charlotte Bronte was buried in the family vault at Haworth Parish Church. She had died on 31st March aged 38.

23/07/1855

Elizabeth Gaskell visited Haworth to meet Patrick Bronte to discuss the biography of Charlotte Bronte.

07/02/1857

The manuscript of the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" by Elizabeth Gaskell was completed.

25/03/1857

The "Life of Charlotte Bronte" by Elizabeth Gaskell was published.

06/06/1857

Charlotte Bronte's previously rejected novel "The Professor" was published.

25/08/1864

Arthur Bell Nichols married again.