“Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.”

English novelist and poet

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet. Born Charlotte Nicholls, she is best known as the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë, and for her novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre first appeared under the pen name Currer Bell and was a major success when it was published. It has since come to be regarded as a classic of English literature.