charlotte brontë death cause

In honor of Charlotte Brontë the Ayden Rae Foundation is designating March 31, 2012 as Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness Day. We will be hosting an HG Awareness Walk through the community of Barstow, CA and invite you to participate. Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. When she died the cause of death was given as consumption, and it seems likely that all of the Brontë children had some latent level of tuberculosis in them throughout their lives, but this wasn’t the disease that claimed Charlotte. She has channeled her misery into coherent, metered lines.

Anne Brontë, sister to fellow writers Emily and Charlotte Brontë, died in May of 1849 of tuberculosis. First of all her death certificate stated “phthisis’ (consumption), better known as tuberculosis, as the cause of death but Charlotte Bronte Nichols was also pregnant and she suffered from extreme nausea from this condition.

Many theories have been advanced concerning the cause of Charlotte Brontë's death, none of which fully explain all the symptoms she experienced in the course of her final illness.

Another sister, Elizabeth, died in childhood, and her only brother, Branwell, died years before her at age 31. Charlotte Brontë is thought to have died of Hyperemesis Gravidarum on March 31st1855. Charlotte passed away on March 31, 1855 at the age of 38 in Haworth, Yorkshire, England, UK. Her death certificate records the cause of death as phthisis (tuberculosis), but there is no evidence, other than circumstantial, to support this diagnosis. Charlotte's cause of death was pneumonia. Emily had died the year previously, also of tuberculosis, and Charlotte would only live for six more years, dying in March of 1855 of pneumonia. Charlotte Brontë Death.