Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was born and died in Bradford, England. She was a novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels became classics of English literature. Her most popular work, Jane Eyre (1847), is considered by many to be ahead of its time and broke new ground by evoking a first-person woman's perspective, approaching the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism by combining Romanticism and naturalism with Gothic melodrama. Mary Baker Eddy recalled to her secretary, Adam H. Dickey, that she enjoyed reading Brontë's novels when she was a teenager.

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