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The Brontë Parsonage Museum is a writer's house museum maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in Haworth , West Yorkshire , England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels .
The parsonage in Haworth, the former family home, is now the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Maria (1814–1825), the eldest, was born in Clough House, Hightown, Liversedge, West Yorkshire, on 23 April 1814. She suffered from hunger, cold, and privation at Cowan Bridge School. Charlotte described her as very lively, very sensitive, and particularly ...
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Charlotte Nicholls (née Brontë; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /), [1] was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
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The former parsonage in Haworth, England, which once served as the Brontë family home and is now the Brontë Parsonage Museum. A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry.
The Brontë siblings began writing prose and poetry related to their paracosmic fantasy world in the 1820s, and in December 1827 produced a novel, Glass Town. [3] Glass Town was founded when twelve wooden soldiers were offered to Branwell Brontë by his father, Patrick Brontë, on 5 June 1826. [4]
The Brontë siblings began writing prose and poetry related to their paracosmic fantasy world in the 1820s, and in December 1827 produced a novel, Glass Town.In January 1829 Branwell started publishing a monthly miscellany involving events and characters from that world, Branwell's Blackwood's Magazine, the title taken from the well-known magazine Blackwood's Magazine, and its content inspired ...