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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 .
This period of rebuilding caused outcry at the time as the church, parsonage and Haworth had become a big attraction due to the notoriety and adoration of the Brontë family, particularly the literature of Anne, Charlotte and Emily. [4]
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 ...
Haworth (UK: / ˈ h aʊ. ər θ / HOW-ərth, [3] also / ˈ h ɔː ər θ / HAW-ərth, [4] US: / ˈ h ɔː w ər θ / HAW-wərth [4]) is a village in West Yorkshire, England, [5] [6] in the Pennines 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Keighley, 8 miles (13 km) north of Halifax, 10 miles (16 km) west of Bradford and 10 miles (16 km) east of Colne in Lancashire.
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.
Emily Jane Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /; [2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) [3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
Staff at a thrift shop located in Wyoming found a police docket from 1904, which documented historical crimes. The discovery of the leather book is said to hold "a wealth of history."
The house was the parsonage when Patrick Brontë, his wife Maria and their two children, Maria (1814-1825) and Elizabeth (1815-1825), moved there on 15 May 1815. The literary sisters and their brother Branwell were all born in the house, and the family lived there until moving to Haworth in 1820 when Patrick was appointed curate there.