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Charlotte, Emily and Anne were then born within approximately four years. These three sisters and their brother, Branwell (1817–1848), who was born after Charlotte and before Emily, were very close to each other. As children, they developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play, set in an intricate imaginary world, and ...
From left to right: Anne, Emily and Charlotte. (Branwell used to be between Emily and Charlotte, but subsequently painted himself out.) Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë.
Maria died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and a son, Branwell, to be taken care of by her sister, Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Patrick sent Charlotte, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.
Anne Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /; [1] 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.. Anne Brontë was the daughter of Maria (née Branwell) and Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England.
The world of Gondal was invented as a joint venture by sisters Emily and Anne.It was a game which they may possibly have played to the end of their lives. Early on they had played with their older siblings Charlotte and Branwell in the imaginary country and game of Angria, which featured the Duke of Wellington and his sons as the heroes.
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.
While Charlotte Brontë was writing Shirley, three of her siblings died. Her brother Branwell died in September 1848, and her sister Emily fell ill and died in December. Brontë resumed writing, but then her only remaining sibling, her sister Anne, became ill and died in May 1849. [3]
[11] [12] This occurred at the time when Charlotte left her siblings to go and study at Roe Head. [11] Emily and Anne kept writing about their world [13] "into early adulthood". [14] After 1831, Charlotte and Branwell concentrated on an evolution of the Glass Town Confederacy called Angria. [15] "At the end of 1839, [Charlotte] Brontë said ...