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"The Story Of The Bronte Sisters", 1955 newspaper article. By 1860 Charlotte had been dead for five years, and the only people living at the parsonage were Mr. Brontë, his son-in-law, Arthur Bell Nicholls, and two servants. In 1857 Mrs. Gaskell's biography of Charlotte was published, and though at its first reading, Mr. Brontë approved of its ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maria Branwell's House, Penzance. Maria Branwell was the eighth child of 12 born to Anne Carne and Thomas Branwell in Penzance, Cornwall, [2] although only five daughters and one son grew to adulthood.
Agnes Grey, A Novel is the first novel by English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of "Acton Bell"), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. [2] The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess , as she works within families of the English gentry.
Elizabeth Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /; [1] 8 February 1815 – 15 June 1825) [2] was the second-eldest child of Patrick Brontë and Maria Brontë, née Branwell.A member of the literary Brontë family, Elizabeth was the younger sister of Maria Brontë as well as the elder sister of writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and poet and artist Branwell.