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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Bronte, Charlotte

Bronte, Charlotte
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
General Introduction

Historical Background:

The four Brontes lived and died in the first part of the nineteenth
century. They were born in the years just after the Napoleonic wars -
Charlotte the year after Waterloo (1815), the victory of her hero, the Duke of
Wellington. Branwell, Emily, and Anne saw the first dozen years of Queen
Victoria's long reign (1837 - 1901). Only Charlotte lived to see the
mid-century mark and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (the ancestor of our World's
Fair), which celebrated half a century of progress.

These were years of ...

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