Where Was The Bronte Sisters Brought Up?
The father of the Bronte sisters was reverend Patrick Bronte (otherwise Brunty or Prunty). He was appointed school examiner at a Wesleyan academy, Woodhouse Grove, near Guiseley, where he met Maria Branwell (1783 – 1821), whom he married on December 29th 1812. Their first child Maria (1814 – 1825) was born after their move to Hartshead, Yorkshire, and their second, Elizabeth (1815 – 1825), after the family moved to Thornton. There the rest of the family were born; Charlotte, (1816 – 1855), Patrick Branwell (1817 – 1848), Emily, (1818 – 1848), and Anne, (1820 – 1849). Patrick, the father, was offered the Perpetual Curacy of Haworth in June 1819, and took the family there in April 1820. The Bronte sisters spent the most of their childhood years Haworth, Yorkshire. In 1824 the four eldest Bronte daughters were enrolled as pupils at the Clergy Daughter’s School at Cowan Bridge. The following year Maria and Elizabeth, the two eldest daughters, became ill, left the school and died: Charlotte
