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The Bronte Sisters 2

Jan 19, 09

www.female-ancestors.com/...bronte.htm bronte
- THE story of the Brontes is one of the saddest in the annals of literature. They were the children of a father who was both cold and violent, and of a gentle, sickly mother, early lost. They were reared amid surroundings the most gloomy and unhealthful, and cursed as they grew older with a brother who brought them shame and sorrow in return for the love they lavished upon him. Their very genius seemed a product of disease, and often their finest pages are marred by a bitter savor of its origin. Their stories deal with suffering, endurance, or rebellion against fate; with violence, with crime and its punishment. In treating such subjects, these three quiet, patient daughters of a country parson found themselves quite at home.
  
  adding this in period B....We just finished the video. The video doesn't bring out all of the father's problems, but certainly talks about Bramwell.
  
  This article details the hardships of the sisters' lives. Written in 1896.
- Her happy married life lasted but eight months. She died in March, 1855. Waking after a long delirium, she saw her husband bending above her with a face of anguish, murmuring some broken prayer that God would spare her.
  
  "Oh!" she whispered, looking up at him, "I am not going to die, am I ? He will not separate us; we have been so happy."
  
  How sad! But sweet...