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Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes

Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes

Eleanor Houghton provides a new perspective on Charlotte Brontë by exploring her fashion choices

Lauren Good

Published: June 24, 2026 at 10:41 AM

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We might picture Charlotte Brontë's life as an isolated one, separated from much of the world and its fashions as she whiled away the hours in her father's Haworth parsonage.

But the truth, as Eleanor Houghton tells Lauren Good, is very different. By exploring the clothes Charlotte wore, we discover new sides to a woman who, despite battling insecurity throughout her life, owned clothes much more worldly and colourful than we’ve previously thought.

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Lauren GoodSenior content producer

Lauren Good is a senior content producer at HistoryExtra

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