Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, and the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. Jane Eyre was a great success on publication and has since been acknowledged as a classic of English literature. Brontë was born in 1816 in Thornton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, and died in 1855 in Haworth, West Yorkshire.