Charlotte Brontë is one of the most famous Victorian women writers

It has been more than one hundred and fifty years since the first novel of then 31 years old Charlotte Brontë was first published. The novel’s title was Jane Eyre and with this book came the beginning of Charlotte’s professional career as a novelist whose name is still not to be forgotten even though she used a pen name for her first publications. Even now her novels keep attracting readers from all over the world, new film adaptations of her work are being created and her stories are also penetrating other genres of art like musicals, operas and more. 

   However, it is not only Charlotte Brontë’s literary work what has been provoking curiosity and attracted interest. Her life and the lives of her family, especially her sisters also known as influential female writers, are for many people almost equally exciting. This fact may be supported by the numbers of biographies and documents which are continually being produced and which keep drawing interest of large audiences. This January – in 2017, Britain’s TV Channel BBC One aired a brand new two-hour long TV film dedicated to the lives of Brontë siblings which proves that people are still hungry for more material on this famous literary family. It also suggests that it is much more difficult than with other writers to separate Brontës’ works from their life experience although the lives of all siblings were only short ones. Despite the fact all three Brontë sisters died before they reached the age of 40, much has happened in their lifetimes and their life stories were (and still are) romanticized by many, contributing to creating a Brontë myth as suggested by author Lucasta Miller in her book bearing the title of the same name.