After Charlotte Brontë's return from Brussels the degeneracy of her only brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, a young man ambitious, but not successful, as an artist, made him an object of her disgust and antipathy, and we find she portrayed him unflinchingly as Hindley Earnshaw of _Wuthering Heights_, and again as John Reed of _Jane Eyre_. Emily, we have been told, liked her brother, though an attempt was made somewhat recently to dissipate the tradition.[10] But Charlotte, after the deaths of her elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, the eldest of the family, obviously was piqued from childhood by the advantage Branwell's sex gave him over her seniority, more especially as he seems to have been brutal to her:--See "A Rainy Day in Charlotte Brontë's Childhood," in _The Key to the Brontë Works_. It may be observed Charlotte Brontë went to three schools, and that each had a remarkable influence upon her life and literature. The first was the Clergy Daughters' School in the Kendal locality, to which her sisters Maria, Elizabeth, and Emily also went upon the death of the ailing Mrs. Brontë at Haworth. The second was Miss Wooler's school already mentioned, and the third the Brussels _pensionnat_. The fact that _Jane Eyre_ virtually opens with the Clergy Daughters' School incidents--incidents drawn from her child-memory regarding the temporary mismanagement of an establishment which subsequently has proved a most useful foundation--shows she began _Jane Eyre_ with the utmost possible fidelity to truth in so far as regarded herself and her associations. The story of how this famous work was sent in 1847 to a firm of publishers who had just declined her novel _The Professor_ is well known history, as is the relation of the subsequent success of the book and the elevation of Charlotte Brontë to the highest recognition. _Wuthering Heights_ had been published as Ellis Bell's work, a _nom de guerre_ that also had appeared over Emily Brontë's poems. It was issued under the condition that the next book by its author went to the same publisher, a Mr. Newby, which, of course, made impossible thereafter Charlotte Brontë's acknowledging her authorship of this work, as the next book by the author of _Wuthering Heights_, her _Jane Eyre_, was published by another house. But there are evidences in _Shirley_ that despite her nervous apprehensions, and her letters show she was very much afraid of this Mr. Newby, who afterwards asserted she wrote _Wuthering Heights_, she therein carefully placed significations of her authorship of _Wuthering Heights_.