Brontë Family Collection 1833-1858

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Brontë Family Collection 1833-1858

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The Brontë sisters:Charlotte, 1816-1855; Emily, 1818-1848; and Anne, 1820-1849; and their brotherPatrick Branwell, 1817-1848, did not publish extensively, but most of what theydid write has entered the canon of classic western literature. The smallBrontë Family collection is largely composed of holographic works by thesiblings, and a few of their letters. A musical score written by Ernest Powellfor one of Emily's poems is also included, as are a few letters byacquaintances.

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Brontë (Family : Haworth, Yorkshire, England)

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Patrick Brontë (1777-1861) was the eldest of ten children born to a poor Irish family in County Down, Ireland. He attended Cambridge University with the sponsorship of a local clergyman. In 1806 he was ordained in the Church of England and took his first position in Essex. He advanced through a series of curacies to a position in Bradford where he met his future wife, Maria Branwell. They married, with the grudging permission of her comfortably middle-class parents, in 1812. Settlin...

Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848

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Patrick Branwell Brontë (born Thornton, England, 26 June 1817 – died 24 September 1848, Hayworth, England) was an English painter and writer. He was the only son of the Brontë family, and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Brontë was rigorously tutored at home by his father, and earned praise for his poetry and translations from the classics. However, he drifted between jobs, supporting himself by portrait-painting, and gave way to drug and alcohol addiction, apparently worsened b...

Brontë, Patrick, 1777-1861

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Patrick Brontë (born Patrick Brunty, 17 March 1777, Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland – died 7 June 1861, Hayworth, England) was an Irish Anglican priest and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years, by which time all of their six children had died as well....

Taylor, Mary

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Spofford, Harriet

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Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849

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Anne Brontë (b. January 17, 1820, Thornton, Yorkshire, England–d. May 28, 1849, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England), English novelist and poet, was the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She is best known for her her novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, published under her pseudonym, Acton Bell....

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848

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Emily Bronte was a British poet and novelist. Born on July 30, 1818, she began writing poetry at the age of eighteen and continued throughout her life although the poems were not intended for publication. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847....

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

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Charlotte Brontë (b. April 21, 1816, Thornton, Yorkshire, England–d. March 31, 1855, Haworth, Yorkshire, England), English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters. She first published her works, including Jane Eyre, under the pen name Currer Bell....

Williams, William Smith, 1800-1875.

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Epithet: reader to Messrs. Smith and Elder British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x00006c ...