On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontand#235s of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . . . But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontand#235 did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.
1 Haworth
2 Cowan Bridge School
3 The little books
4 Growing up
5 Looking for work
6 Monsieur Heger and Mrs Robinson
7 Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
8 The best days, and the worst days
9 Arthur Nicholls
10 Maria