The front door opened almost directly on to the churchyard. Their parsonage home, a small house, was of grey stone, two stories high. The lonely purple moors became one of the most important shaping forces in the life of the Brontë sisters. In 1820 he moved to Haworth, a poverty-stricken little town at the edge of a large tract of moorland, where he served as a rector and chairman of the parish committee. Patrick Brontë loved poetry, he published several books of prose and verse and wrote to local newspapers. In 1812 he married Maria Branwell of Penzance. Eventually he settled in Yorkshire, the centre of his life's work. Patrick Brontë, had moved from Ireland to Weatherfield, in Essex, where he taught in Sunday school. The sisters also jointly published a volume of verse, POEMS BY CURRER, ELLIS AND ACTON BELL, but only two copies of the book were sold.Įmily was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England. Considered by many to be the greatest writer of the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.Įmily Brontë published only one novel, WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847), a story of the doomed love and revenge.
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