Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are three of the most remarkable novelists and poets of the nineteenth century Charlotte was the most prolific of the three: Jane Eyre, the story of a governess's triumph over her lowly station in life; Shirley, set in Yorkshire at the time of the Luddite riots at the end of the Napoleonic war; and Villette, based on her experiences as a teacher in Belgium The Professor, Charlotte's first novel, was published after her death Anne Bronte was the author of Agnes Grey and