Aunt Elizabeth Branwell is all too easily overlooked in the Brontë story, and yet she was pivotal to the incredible story of these incredible sisters. On a very human scale she stepped into the breach after her sister Maria’ untimely death and became almost a second mother to the young children in Haworth Parsonage; it was also Elizabeth’s legacy to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë which gave them the financial freedom to pay for their first book to be published. In today’s post we wi...| Anne Brontë
Apologies to all who missed my Brontë blog post last Sunday, a combination of travelling and technical glitches meant that it somehow vanished into the ether never to return – although as it was about the Brontës’ French connections it may make a return next year on or around the date of Bastille Day.| Anne Brontë
Apologies to all who missed my Brontë blog post last Sunday, a combination of travelling and technical glitches meant that it somehow vanished into the ether never to return – although as it …| Anne Brontë
Aunt Elizabeth Branwell is all too easily overlooked in the Brontë story, and yet she was pivotal to the incredible story of these incredible sisters. On a very human scale she stepped into the bre…| Anne Brontë