Brontë family

Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell (c. 1834). He painted himself with his sisters, but he later removed himself so the picture was not cluttered. National Portrait Gallery, London

Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840

The Brontës (/ˈbrɒntiz/) were a nineteenth-century literature family. They were born in Thornton. Later, they moved to Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are popular poets and writers. They could not use their own names when writing, because otherwise their works would not be taken seriously. They published their poems and novels under male names: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories had lots of passion and quickly became popular. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first of their popular books. Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works became popular after their deaths.

Family tree

Hugh Brunty

Alice McClory

Anne Carne

Thomas Branwell

Jane Branwell

John Fennell

Patrick Brontë 1777–1861

Maria Branwell 1783–1821

Elizabeth Branwell 1776–1842

Jane Branwell

John Kingston 1769–1824

Jane Branwell Fennell 1791–1827

William Morgan 1782–1858

Maria Brontë 1814–1825

Elizabeth Brontë 1815–1825

Arthur Bell Nicholls 1819–1906

Charlotte Brontë 1816–1855

Branwell Brontë 1817–1848

Emily Brontë 1818–1848

Anne Brontë 1820–1849

References

Bibliography

• Alexander, Christine; Sellars, Jane (1995). The Art of the Brontës. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521438414. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
• Barker, Juliet R. V. (1995). The Brontës. London: Phoenix House. ISBN 1-85799-069-2.
• Bentley, Phyllis (1947). The Brontës. Home & Van Thal. (The English Novelists series)
• Drabble, Margaret, ed. (1985). The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Fifth ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866130-6.
• du Maurier, Daphne (1987) [1960]. The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-003401-3.
• Gaskell, Elizabeth (1857). The Life of Charlotte Brontë.
• Hoare, Neil; Kathryn Sutherland Joan Winterkorn and Friends of the National Libraries (Great Britain). 2023. The Blavatnik Honresfield Library : Saved for the Nation. Reading: Friends of the National Libraries.
• Peters, Margot (August 1977). Unquiet Soul: Biography of Charlotte Brontë. Futura Publications. ISBN 9780860075608.
• Smith Kenyon, Karen (April 2002). The Brontë Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses. Lerner Publications. ISBN 0-8225-0071-X.

Other websites

• Brontë Society
• The Brontës