In the early 19th century, three sisters were born in a small house in northern England: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Each one would grow up to become a pivotal figure in English literature, with ...

according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography—started writing “hauntingly elegiac lyrics in a spare, natural style.” When Charlotte came across a book of Emily’s poems in 1845 ...

The painting was first mentioned in 1853, by the novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Gaskell, who published a biography ... Charlotte was born in 1816, Branwell 1817, Emily in 1818 and ...