Irene Cooper Willis

The Brontes Irene Cooper Willis

THE BRONTES by IRENE COOPER WILLIS CONTENTS Chapter I Haworth Parsonage. Chapter II Patrick Brontes origin and education enters the Church his first curacies and marriage to Maria Branwell birth of their children arrival at Haworth Mrs. Brontes illness and death the childrens early years deaths of Maria and Elizabeth home life Chapter III The childrens library Charlottes and Branwells Angrian literature its origin and development the Bronte shyness Chapter IV Charlotte goes to school Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor returns to Angria Ellen Nusseys picture of the Parsonage group Charlottes correspondence with her friends. Chapter V Branwells ambitions their failure Emily at school her disposition Charlotte as a governess and back at home again the Brussels plan. Chapter VI Charlotte and Emily at the Pensionnat Heger Villette Miss Branwells death Charlotte and M. Heger back at Haworth publication of the poems Branwells breakdown, Chapter VII The novels their publication success of Jane Eyre the confusion of authorships Wuthering Heights. Chapter VIII. The deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne Charlottes marriage to Mr. Nicholls her death. CHRONOLOGY