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English. Publication place. United Kingdom. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell [1] was a book of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry ), and their first work in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted masculine first ...
Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. 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 ...
Past Days. The Arbour. The Consolation. The Doubter's Prayer. The Penitent. To Cowper. Vanitas Vanitatum Omnia Vanitas.
We Are Seven. " We are Seven " is a poem written by William Wordsworth and published in his Lyrical Ballads. It describes a discussion between an adult poetic speaker and a "little cottage girl" about the number of brothers and sisters who dwell with her. The poem turns on the question of whether to account two dead siblings as part of the family.
Canon Isaac Taylor (nephew) Jane Taylor (23 September 1783 – 13 April 1824) was an English poet and novelist best known for the lyrics of the widely known "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". [ 1] The sisters Jane and Ann Taylor and their authorship of various works have often been confused, partly because their early ones were published together.
Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë. The family was living on Market Street, in a house now known as the Brontë Birthplace in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Emily was the second youngest of six siblings, preceded by Maria ...
Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now 110 Hallam Street ), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron 's friend and physician John William Polidori. [ 1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante Gabriel became an influential ...
Charlotte Vandine Forten (mother) Relatives. Harriet Forten Purvis (sister), Margaretta Forten (sister) Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis (1814–1884) was an American poet and abolitionist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-founded The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and contributed many poems to the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.