In 1845 Charlotte Brontë came across a manuscript volume of her sister's poems. After a year of study and teaching there, they felt qualified to announce the opening of a school in their own home, but could not attract a single pupil. Emily's special province was a kingdom she called Gondal, whose romantic heroes and exiles owed much to the poems of Byron.īrief stays at several boarding schools were the sum of her experiences outside Haworth until 1842, when she entered a school in Brussels with her sister Charlotte. They invented a series of imaginary kingdoms and constructed a whole library of journals, stories, poems, and plays around their inhabitants. All five were poets and writers all but Branwell would publish at least one book.įantasy was the Brontë children's one relief from the rigors of religion and the bleakness of life in an impoverished region. Born in 1818, she shared the parsonage of the town of Haworth, Yorkshire, with her older sister, Charlotte, her brother, Branwell, her younger sister, Anne, and her father, The Reverend Patrick Brontë. Emily Jane Brontë was the most solitary member of a unique, tightly-knit, English provincial family.
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