Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are three of the most remarkable novelists and poets of the nineteenth century. Charlotte was the most prolific of the three: Jane Eyre , the story of a governess' triumph over her lowly station in life; Shirley , set in Yorkshire at the time of the Luddite riots at the end of the Napoleonic war; and Villette , based on her experiences as a teacher in Belgium. The Professor , Charlotte's first novel, was published after her death. Anne Bronte was the author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights portrays the sinister Heathcliff and his love for Catherine Earnshaw.