Thursday, May 24, 2018

THE BRONTES

I didn't know that Ann, Emily, and Charlotte Bronte were all writers. They also had a brother, Branwell Bronte, who was a writer and painter. I admit that my knowledge of them is limited. One thing that I see that they were a creative and talented family. Ann's claim to fame was the novel, Agnes Gray, while Emily wrote Wuthering Heights. Charlotte's famous novel is Jane Eyre. Branwell was the only one whose poems were published. 

A common thread, sadly, is that they all died young. Emily (30) and Anne (29) died possibly of consumption (tuberculosis). Branwell met the same fate at 31 exasperated by alcohol and drug addiction. Charlotte lived to 38, dying from complications of childbirth.

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