Charlotte Brontë portrait by George Richmond Postcard

From our poster with the same name. High resolution scan (600 DPI, 14.5MB JPEG, 200x zoom factor) of a vintage postcard of a portrait of Charlotte Brontë, a chalk drawing by George Richmond (from the Richmond artist family, father of William Blake and son of Thomas, also the grandfather of Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond). Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell. Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria (née Branwell) and her husband Patrick Brontë (formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman. In 1820, the family moved a few miles to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate of St Michael and All Angels Church. Charlotte's mother died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to be taken care of by her sister Elizabeth Branwell.