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The Brontë sisters are so fascinating for me. It's amazing that three such talented writers came from one family, but also tragic when you see how they all ended up. I think Charlotte was the most tragic; she lost all her siblings, and finally found some semblance of happiness in marriage, and then died while pregnant from tuberculosis or possibly hyperemesis gravidarum.

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Jane Eyre was my favorite of all the books the sisters wrote, but I would have loved to read their really early work, like from their childhood and teen years. Apparently Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother wrote some of the first documented fanfiction and real person fiction about a naval hero of the time.