A Background of Charlotte Brontë\u27s Novels : Charlotte Brontë and her Ancestors

Dr. William Wright\u27s The Brontës in Ireland, published in 1893, is a very remarkable book for connecting Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights with Welsh Brunty,the great-grandfather of the Brontë sisters.In 1981, following Wright, but correcting his errors, John Cannon, a British playwright, published The Road to Haworth, in which he elaborately shows us,like Wright, how Heathcliff was taken from Welsh Brunty. Cannon, however, fails to connect other episodes of the Brontës\u27 ancestors with those which appear in Charlotte Brontë\u27s four novels, namely The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette.This paper is to elucidate that the episodes similar to those of the Brontës\u27 ancestors are seen in Charlotte Brontë\u27s novels, and to hint at the possibility that she may have heard the episodes of her ancestors from her father, and have adopted and used them in her four novels