
this book is truly unique in it's presentation of Brontë's history. I shall endeavour, therefore, before proceeding further with my work, to present some idea of the character of the people of Haworth, and the surrounding districts. Find out about the life of one of the world's greatest female authors This following is from the 2nd chapter - For a right understanding of the life of my dear friend, Charlotte Brontë, it appears to me more necessary in her case than in most others, that the reader should be made acquainted with the peculiar forms of population and society amidst which her earliest years were passed, and from which both her own and her sisters’ first impressions of human life must have been received. The father encouraged the children to spend time in nature on the moors.Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell is a great English novelist in her own right with her own books being adapted for television shows, however, she shot to fame by first publishing Charlotte Brontë's biography in 1857. Her father had been appointed as perpetual curate there, meaning that he and his family could live in the parsonage as long as he continued his work there. All six children were born before the family moved in April 1820 to the 5-room parsonage at Haworth on the moors of Yorkshire that they would call home for most of their lives. She was born at the parsonage in Thornton, Yorkshire, where her father was serving. Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell Brontë. Her masterpiece, Jane Eyre, remains immensely popular and critically acclaimed today.īrontë was the third of six siblings born in six years to the Rev. Key Accomplishments: Brontë, along with her two sisters, broke into the male-dominated writing world.


Pen Names: Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley, Currer Bell.
