![]() ![]() We all know the three Brontë sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, without doubt the greatest writing family of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë, was village priest there in 1816, and the family didn’t leave for his new post in Haworth until shortly after Anne Brontë’s birth in 1820. She was born, however, in the village of Thornton, Bradford around six miles away. Charlotte Brontë was not born in HaworthĬharlotte and the Brontës will forever be associated with Haworth in West Yorkshire, and she did spend most of her life at the Parsonage there, now home to the wonderful Brontë Parsonage Museum. Some of these facts are funny, some are sad, and some are frankly odd, but they all reveal a little more of a remarkable woman on this, her special bicentenary. While researching my biography of her sister Anne, In Search Of Anne Brontë, I discovered a lot about Charlotte too, and she had a life as unique and intriguing as any of her heroines. Yet, work of genius though it undoubtedly is, there’s much more to Charlotte Brontë than just Jane Eyre. Whether we’ve read it at school or in later life, or seen one of the many film and television adaptations, we all know the story of the plain governess who falls in love with the stern rich master hiding a big secret in his attic. ![]()
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