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  1. May 14, 2021 · An 1850 investigation by Benjamin Hershel Babbage—which was instigated by Patrick Brontë, the novelists’ father and the parish priest, shortly after the deaths of Emily (1848; she was 30), Branwell (1848; he was 31), and Anne (1849; she was 29)—showed that the small town of Haworth, where the Brontës lived, had much higher mortality ...

  2. After moving to Haworth, Maria sickened with what may have been uterine or ovarian cancer, or chronic pelvic sepsis and anaemia brought on by the birth of her youngest daughter Anne. Whatever the cause, Maria died seven and half months later, suffering a long agony; Anne was only twenty months old. Maria was buried on 22 September 1821 at Haworth.

    • 15 September 1821 (aged 38)
  3. Nov 9, 2019 · A new book chronicles the love and hardships of Maria Branwell, mother of the Brontë sisters. Maria Branwell dutifully worked through piles of schoolboy mending, wondering when she could escape ...

  4. Apr 17, 2017 · Although it is commonly stated today that she had died of uterine cancer, in the 1970s Dr. Philip Rhodes, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and one of the leading authorities in England, stated that in his opinion Maria could not have died of uterine cancer based upon the evidence we have.

  5. She passed away at the age of 38 on 15 September 1821. It is commonly believed that it was uterine cancer that killed Maria Branwell. However, Dr Philip Rhodes, a professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, hypothesized that she had died of chronic pelvic sepsis and anaemia brought on by the childbirth.

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  7. Dec 22, 2016 · Two years later, in 1825, their two elder sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, died within six weeks of one another from tuberculosis contracted while away at school.

  8. Mar 10, 2024 · Maria Branwell by James Tonkin. It was the death of Maria’s parents Thomas and Anne that led her, in the summer of 1812, to make the arduous journey from Cornwall to Yorkshire to work as an assistant in a school that had been opened by her Aunt Jane and Uncle John Fennell (as a comparison, this is a longer journey in miles than the one her ...

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