Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

A little girl's imagination grew strong in the wild English moors.

As she got older, she tried to follow a conventional woman's path, but failure kept sending her back to her family and her country home.

With her sisters by her side, Charlotte Bronti combined her imagination with the drama she had seen in her lifetime and introduced the world to a small, plain heroine who changed the face of literature.

The End

Let's talk about Charlotte Bronti.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1816, French mathematician Sophie Germain became the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Science, the barber of Seville debuted.

Lady Byron asks for Andrew Seves, a divorce from Lord Byron, her husband of only one year and the father of her infant daughter, Ada Loveless.

Thanks to a massive volcano erupting halfway around the world in Indonesia, New England and the United States experiences snow and frost in the summer months of June and July.

The first double-decker steamboat makes his maiden voyage.

James Monroe was elected the fifth president of the United States, and Indiana became the 19th US state.

Mary Wolston Crafkodwin wrote her breakthrough novel Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus, then married poet Percy Shelley.

Queen Maria I of Portugal died and in 1816, future author Charlotte Bronti was born.

Charlotte Bronti was born on April 21, 1816 in the village of Thornton, in New Yorkshire, England.

She was the third of the six children of Reverend Patrick Bronti and his wife Mariah Brandwell Bronti.

Papa was born in Ireland, the oldest of 10 children in a poor, poor, poor family.

The house where he grew up seems to be more like a crumbling hut or so he marketed himself.

As we look further into his story, yes, he's the oldest of 10 children, but his father's house seems to be a big two-story stone house.

Hmm.

He was allowed to stay in school longer than the other boys around him, which is odd, but was also apprentice to a blacksmith and had no shoes.

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