The Brontë Sisters

The Brontë Sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë lived and died very young in the early 19th century, and all three sisters were both novelists as well as poets. Like many contemporary female writers before them, the Brontë’s wrote under male pseudonyms, and were Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell respectively. Their novels had a tremendous impact and eventually became extremely popular in Victorian England, and today, their works are accepted as masterpieces of literature. Sadly, the Brontë family suffered much loss, and not one of the sisters made it to age 40. Charlotte, Emily, and Anne were pretty typical of common women during this time period in that they were educated, impoverished, and likely destined to become spinsters as they grew older, and yet what is fascinating about the Brontë’s is that they cherished their isolated home on the moors. The few times they did venture into formal society left them scarred, from working as governesses to eventually travelling to London to promote their literary works, and not one of them ever stayed away for more than a few months at a time. They were three very quiet, and very strange women, though let’s be honest here – not one of them was lacking in the romantic fantasy department as is demonstrated in their writing, and it has to make you wonder just what exactly was going on under the surface. So let’s kick off episode 15 with a bang and dig into the secluded, tragic, and Brontë -esque story of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.