Branwell Brontë

Her only brother was Patrick Branwell (born in 1817), whom the family referred to as Branwell.

The close of the year 1848 was terrible for AB . Her sister Emily died of consumption on 19 December, as had Branwell in September.

Although some of the collaboratively produced juvenilia of the Brontë children is still extant, none has survived that was individually authored by AB . In their childhood play which developed into the fantasy worlds...

Patrick Branwell Brontë , the only son of the family, was born: he was known as Branwell.

Branwell Brontë began a downward spiral of drinking, debts, and dissipation that hastened his death.

Branwell Brontë died of tuberculosis.

CB had begun creating plays with her siblings: both secret Bed plays produced under the covers with Emily in their shared bed, and daytime plays involving Branwell and Anne as well.

CB began producing a miniature periodical called the Young Men's Magazine, filled with fantastic narratives and reportage. A month later she took over her brother Branwell 's imitation of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

CB came from an Irish and English background, Anglican on both sides. Her father's tireless activity as rector in Haworth and surrounding areas made her a member of a prominent and respectable, if financially strapped...

EB was supposed by early biographers to have been close to her brother Branwell , who was born on 26 June 1817, perhaps because of their closeness in age, his wayward temperament, and a supposed...

During childhood and early adulthood the Brontë siblings produced elaborate fantasy worlds, which they acted out as plays, in part with toy figures. These worlds came to have individualized personae, geographies, and histories, which...

The death of EB 's brother Branwell on 24 September 1848 of tuberculosis, hastened by depression and dissipation, was the culmination of two years of great anxiety for the Brontë family.

The Brontë siblings developed an imaginary world complete with elaborate characters, narratives, and maps, and eventually literature, starting on 5 June 1826 from a set of toy soldiers given to Branwell . Charlotte and Branwell...

Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson published...

CD 's Wild Decembers, based on the lives of the BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëBranwell Brontë family, had its first performance, at the Apollo Theatre , London.