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However, he spent a lot of time away from home ministering to the sick, poor and dying, so that his children were mainly brought up by their mother’s sister, Elizabeth, known as ‘Aunt Branwell’ and the family maid, Tabby. He also took a great interest in the raising and educating of his six children, whose mother died after just nine years of marriage, leaving Patrick a life-long widower, despite his apparent attempts to re-marry. He was not the stereotypical stodgy churchman, but instead wrote novels and accounts of rural life, poems and newspaper articles.

After marrying a young Cornish woman named Maria Branwell, he became curate of the ancient parish of Haworth, in Yorkshire, a post he would retain until his death in 1861. John’s College, Cambridge, but on graduation he joined the Church of England – a common practise at the time for educated men with no private means – and no particular indicator of piety. Intelligent and aspirational, he won a scholarship to St. Patrick Brontë was an Irishman and born a Catholic on St.

Much admired as early feminist writers and literary icons.

Most famous for ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Jane Eyre’.

A unique group of novelists who developed in the isolation and harsh life of the Yorkshire moors.

They have attracted a cult-following only rivaled by that of Jane Austen. They originally published under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, to avoid the prejudice of the time against female writers. The three sisters are well known as poets and novelists. The Brontës were a nineteenth-century family who spent their brief lives in the isolated moorlands of Yorkshire.

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