Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.
== Tossup Questions ==
# In one of her novels, Luddites attack Robert Moore's mill, and this author created Lucy Snowe in her novel Villette. This author of Shirley also wrote a novel in which the title character is haunted by the ghost of Uncle Reed and learns that Reverend St. John Rivers is her cousin. That character created by this author is employed in a household where Grace Poole looks after Bertha Mason, the crazed wife of Edward Rochester. For 10 points, name this author of Jane Eyre.
# This author wrote about Louis Gerard Moore's courtship of the owner of Fieldhead, Mrs. Keeldar, in her novel Shirley. In another novel by her, we learn that the brat John grows up to be an alcoholic and dies early, while Helen Burns succumbs to an epidemic of fever. Jean Rhys wrote a prequel to this author's major work, which sees the title character sent to live with the harsh Mrs. Reed before arriving at Thornfield. In that work, a fire reveals that Bertha Mason still lives upstairs. For 10 points, name this writer who created Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre.