Brought back to Haworth Parsonage,the relationship between the surviving sisters and the youngest,Anne,who had remained at home,developed into an intensely close bond.Emily's poetry from a few years later suggests that they shared in an invented fantasy universe,which one can presume was nurtured by their isolation and lack of a mother.Charlotte and her brother Patrick Branwell wrote ambitious poems about a country they named Angria.Emily and Anne meanwhile called their land Gondal.
　　Charlotte was again absent from the family home between 1831-1833,this time alone,to attend school at Roe Head,Mirfield.It was there she met Mary Taylor and Ellen Nussey,the two lifelong friends with whom she exchanged scores ofletters.Left to her own devices,Charlotte dabbled in fiction.Her first novella.entitled The Green Dwarf,A Tale of the Perfect Tense （1833）,was written under the penname of Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley.Charlotte's choice of such a grand-sounding pseudonym indicates her fanciful girlish ideas.Wellesley was the family name of the Duke of Wellington,the Irish-born soldier and statesman who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815before going onto serve as prime minister between 1828 and 1830 and for a few weeks in 1834.The Green Dwarf was not published in Bronte's lifetime,though remains a work of small curiosity for scholars and those who enjoy her mature novels.
　　Following her matriculation from Roe Head,Bronte decided to return to that school for a time and teach the children.At twenty-three she changed career and became a governess,working in country houses across her native Yorkshire.
　　Charlotte hoped to found a school for girls with Emily,but this never materialised.Instead the two young women moved to Brussels where they attended a boarding school run by Constantin Heger and his wife.To pay for their accommodation and tuition,they taught music and English to the schoolmaster's children.The sojourn in Belgium was in all probability the key emotional event in Charlotte's brief life. She became infatuated with her married employer and began to write letters to him pouring out a torrential,un-reciprocated passion.This was interrupted when in October 1842,the sisters' Aunt Branwell became mortally ill and they had to return to England.Charlotte came back to Brussels alone afterwards,though before long felt isolated and saddened that nothing was going to develop between her and Heger.
　　Madame Heger's discovery of the correspondence persuaded her husband to desist from tolerating the English spinster's outpourings and because of the shame he felt he tore up and discarded the letters.His wife apparently fished them out of the bin and then stitched or glued them back together so that they might be preserved.The correspondence was donated to the British Museum by a member of the Heger family in 1913.
　　Upon returning to the UK for the last time,Charlotte found no happy home.Years of heavy drinking and the failure to find steady employment finally took their toll on her brother's health.He expired,probably from bronchitis,in September 1848.Worse still,Emily caught a chill whilst attending his funeral and succumbed to pneumonia in December.
　　The family was decimated within a few short months.Now more than ever,theReverend Bronte required the support of his only living child.It can come as little surprise that this dark period coincided with the most fruitful period of her literary output.Drawing on memories of Belgium,she quickly penned,The Professor,Villette,and then Jane Eyre.
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