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Branwell is the author of Juvenilia, which he wrote as a child with his sister Charlotte, Glass Town, Angria, poems, pieces of prose and verse under the pseudonym of Northangerland, [N 4] such as "Real Rest", published by the Halifax Guardian (8 November 1846) [122] from several articles accepted by local newspapers and from an unfinished novel ...
The pseudonyms veiled the sisters' sex while preserving their initials; thus Charlotte was Currer Bell. "Bell" was the middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls whom Charlotte later married, and "Currer" was the surname of Frances Mary Richardson Currer who had funded their school (and maybe their father). [ 23 ]
She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.
The Bronte sisters, British literature's most celebrated siblings are having a banner year in 2023 in film, Emily; stage, Wuthering Heights; and auction.
In a parody of the "Hampstead intellectual" scene of the time of the book's creation, the Mr Mybug character boasts of working on a biography of Branwell Brontë, his thesis being that Branwell was in fact the real author of the books ascribed to his sisters. In Tim Powers' novel My Brother’s Keeper (2023), Branwell is a major character ...
Schwestern im Geiste (English: Sisters in Spirit) is a 2014 German-language musical written by Peter Lund (lyrics), with music by Thomas Zaufke and choreography by Neva Howard. The musical was co-produced by the University of Arts Berlin and the Neukölln Opera.
Maria Branwell (15 April 1783 [1] – 15 September 1821) is best known as being the mother of British writers Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and of their brother Branwell Brontë, who was a poet and painter. Maria married Patrick Brontë on 29 December 1812.
Winifred Eveleen Gérin OBE, née Bourne, (7 October 1901 – 28 June 1981) was an English biographer born in Hamburg.She is best known as a biographer of the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell, whose lives she researched extensively.