Mark Schuler: Charlotte Brontë

Artist: Mark Schuler
1951 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1980
Image Size: 8.75 by 11.5 inches
Overall Size: 15 by 17 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Cold Press Illustration Board

Charlotte Brontë, celebrated novelist of the 1800s, brought a dramatic intensity to her works that was born in the trials of her early life. When just a young girl, her mother and her two oldest sisters died. Though her aunt raised the family, there was little affection or understanding given and the four remaining children drew themselves into an intense intimacy, creating an elaborate fantasy world of villainous characters and uncontrolled passion. Charlotte's adventures in this imaginary world possessed her with a great intensity and throughout her life, the conflicts between this make-believe world and her real life caused her great suffering. Though her life was outwardly calm, inwardly it was a raging tide of battling conscience and desire. These struggles surfaced in tempestuous novels, the first being The Professor which deals with her experience of falling in love with a married headmaster. The book was not published during her lifetime, but a short time after penning it, she published Jane Eyre, which is also largely autobiographical. Of all her novels, Jane Eyre recalls best the author's youthful fantasy world. Readers of the novel were shocked at the heroine's desire to be considered an independent person, but nonetheless, the book became a literary success. Within the next two years, Charlotte's two remaining sisters and her brother died, but despite her great loss, she finished the novel Shirley. Six years later, in 1855, Charlotte also died.

This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Great Britain Europa stamp featured in the 1980 Portraits of Greatness collection.

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