Maria Branwell
was the daughter of a prosperous merchant from Penzance; her parents' deaths left her with a life annuity of £50. She was twenty-nine when she met Patrick Brontë, having moved to Yorkshire to...
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Charlotte Brontë
The Brontës' mother, Maria Brontë
, died at the age of thirty-eight, having fallen ill in January with cancer, probably of the uterus.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
102, 104
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Charlotte Brontë
Maria Branwell
was the daughter of a prosperous merchant from Penzance; her parents' deaths left her with a life annuity of £50. She was twenty-nine when she met Patrick Brontë, having moved to Yorkshire to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Emily Brontë
Maria Branwell
was the daughter of a prosperous merchant from Penzance; her parents' deaths left her with a life annuity of £50. She was twenty-nine when she met Patrick Brontë, having moved to Yorkshire to...