There are actually quite a few similarities. Jane was an orphan, and like her, Charlotte grew up without a mother (she died when Charlotte was five). Both Jane and Charlotte were sent away to boarding schools where the conditions and staff were not always pleasant. In both lives, an epidemic of typhus broke out. In Charlotte's case, the epidemic claimed the lives of two of her sisters. She was brought home immediately after.
Jane marries Mr. Rochester after his first and very crazy wife has set fire to the house and left him blinded and crippled. She ends up caring for him as an invalid rather than as a wife.
Charlotte loses all her sisters to illnesses, is left to care for her father until his death, and then accepts a proposal from one of her father's friends who served as the headmaster at the school where she attended. She contracts a fever and dies at the age of thirty-nine, pregnant with her first child.
Quite lives are full of bittersweet events and tragic stories.
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