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Hace 4 días · Branwell Brontë, self-portrait. Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) was considered by his father and sisters to be a genius, while the book by Daphne du Maurier (1986), The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, contains numerous references to his addiction to alcohol and laudanum.
Hace 3 días · Anne Brontë was an English poet and novelist, sister of Charlotte and Emily Brontë and author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). The youngest of six children of Patrick and Marie Brontë, Anne was taught in the family’s Haworth home and at Roe Head School.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 1 día · The story of the Brontës begins with Patrick Brontë, an Irish clergyman who moved his young family to Haworth when he was appointed curate of the local church in 1820. His children – five daughters and a son – were bright, creative and largely educated at home.
Hace 4 días · The Napoleon relic that Charlotte Brontë picked up in Brussels. In 1843, while future bestseller Charlotte Brontë was in Brussels perfecting her French, she was gifted a Napoleonic relic: a fragment of the emperor’s coffin. Friday, 24 November 2023. By Helen MacEwan. When Charlotte Brontë left Brussels in 1844 after her two-year ...
Hace 5 días · Books and Reading in the Brontë Family - «A considerable amount of work has gone into tracing literary influences on the Brontës. Inevitably much of this work is conjectural» (Tom Winnifrith) – Literature read by Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë or Patrick Branwell Brontë and mentioned in The Professor, Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, Tenant of Wildfell Hall ...
Hace 5 días · Le biografie delle sorelle Brontë, scrittrici inglesi della prima metà dell'Ottocento, famose per aver pubblicato nello stesso anno, il 1847, tre romanzi che avrebbero conosciuto grande successo nel tempo. Charlotte, la sorella maggiore, è l'autrice di 'Jane Eyre'; Emily è l'autrice di 'Cime tempestose'; Anne è la sorella minore, autrice di 'Agnes Grey'.
Hace 3 días · But prejudice of birth was certainly at the heart of the story and why wouldn’t it be? Anti-slave campaigner and Yorkshire MP William Wilberforce was Patrick Brontë’s sponsor at Cambridge. And we know Patrick shared many of the issues of the day with his three young girls, issues which were placed at the very heart of the books ...
