Branwell Brontë

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...

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

Branwell Brontë died of tuberculosis.

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...

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.

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.

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

MT became close friends with Charlotte Brontë, and always remained loyal to her, despite their disagreements. Mary and her sister Martha stayed at Haworth several times between 1838 and 1840. A letter from Charlotte...

SG 's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières...

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...

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.

It also featured an excerpt from Book V of Barrett Browning 's recent kunstlerroman Aurora Leigh on the dreariness of women writers who sit by solitary fires / And hear the nations praising them far...

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.