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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.
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.
In 1844, the sisters attempted to open a school in their house, but their plans were stymied by an inability to attract students to the remote area. [27] In 1844, Emily began going through all the poems she had written, recopying them neatly into two notebooks. [28] One was labelled "Gondal Poems"; the other was unlabelled.
The genesis of Agnes Grey was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. [4]It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, [5] although Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre were all published within the same year: 1847. [6]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë.It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854.
Maria Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly / ˈ b r ɒ n t eɪ /; [1] 23 April 1814 [2] – 6 May 1825) [3] was the eldest daughter of Patrick Brontë and Maria Brontë, née Branwell.. She was the elder sister of Elizabeth Brontë, the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and the painter and poet Branwell.
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.