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The Brontës of Haworth: With Alfred Burke, Vickery Turner, Ann Penfold, Barbara Leigh-Hunt. Dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily.
How did three sisters, daughters of a country clergyman, grow up to produce some of the most powerful and dramatic novels in the English language? To find out more about the lives of the Brontës, and some of the events that influenced their work, click on the links to the left.
The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and novelists.
Haworth | Bronte Parsonage Museum. The Pennine village where the Bronte sisters grew up was then a crowded industrial town, polluted, smelly and wretchedly unhygienic.
Plots, characters and key ideas. The Brontës are the world's most famous literary family and Haworth Parsonage, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, was their home from 1820 to 1861. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were the authors of some of the best-loved books in the English language.
The year 1847 brings excitement for the sisters with the publication of their novels and a life-changing voyage to London to prove to their publisher that each sister is an author in her own right. But sorrowful events soon overshadow the glow of success.
Playwright Christopher Fry documents literary achievements and personal tragedies of the Bronte sisters.
