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The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and novelists.
Dec 22, 2016 · Family affairs. Hovering in the film’s background is their clever, unusual father, who propelled himself from hardscrabble Ireland to Cambridge University. He carried a loaded pistol with him at...
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Anne was the only one to maintain a long-term post, as governess to the Robinson family from 1840-45. Shortly after Anne joined the Robinsons, Charlotte spearheaded a scheme to open their own school. For this they needed a more sophisticated education so, in February 1842, Charlotte (aged 25) and Emily (23), went to a school in Brussels.
Aug 27, 2012 · When Barker's monumental family biography of the Brontes was published in 1994, it was as though a skilled restorer had come along to work on the group portrait, gently rubbing off the lurid...
Feb 21, 2022 · The Bronte sisters were the world’s most famous literary family and Haworth Parsonage, now the Brontė Parsonage Museum, was their home from 1820 to 1861. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontė were the authors of some of the best-loved books in the English language.
It appears that the Brontë family can be traced to the Irish clan Ó Pronntaigh (“descendant of Pronntach”), who are known to have been a family of hereditary scribes and literary men in Fermanagh – a suitable coincidence given the success of the three Brontë sisters.
