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Author Page 1 : Bronte |
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..... in which Tigger helps Pooh with the 100 acre mess of interesting pics and extracts from Juliet's Bront� Project notes. It's from her Field Study Trip to the Bront� Parsonage & Museum at Haworth in Yorkshire and to Tunstall Church in Lancashire (near Kirkby Lonsdale) on the other side of the Pennine Hills. Visitors to the area may want to know that the Tunstall Church is about 3 miles south of Cowan Bridge where the 4 eldest girls were sent to boarding school |
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Charlotte Bront� (1816 to 1855), was the 3rd child among 5 girls and 1 boy born to the Revd and Mrs Bront� - - probably best known for her novel "Jane Eyre" published in 1847
[This is from a painted copy of a photograph of the pastel drawing by George Richmond R.A.] |
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Summary of the Five-Page Content of this Bront� Corner - a general overview with pics of the sisters, the Parsonage, of "Top Withens" from "Wuthering Heights" and of the cover from a musical setting to one of Anne's poems.
Their brother Branwell - "The Black Bull" connection - the importance of Branwell's toy soldiers - The girls' miniature books - the Bront� Memorial Chapel.
A painting of a view of the old Parish Church at Haworth - Visiting the Parsonage Museum (with a description of the various rooms seen on the tour) - a drawing of today's church on the same site - background history of Haworth itself with an extract from Court Rolls of 1839 - a pic of the Bront� Country fantasy-map from the museum with list of Bront� connections to various places in Yorkshire - a section about the writings of the Bront� sisters.
The Revd Patrick Bront� ( Prunty / Brunty ) - pic of Haworth Church list of incumbents - about moving from parish to parish by the young Bront� father & mother - Bront� Monument pic - of schooldays and times of tragedy - pic of Charlotte's Marriage Certificate from 1854
A painting of the church the sisters attended at Tunstall near Cowan Bridge - Devil's Bridge pic, and its legend - pic of the old saxon market town of Kirkby Lonsdale, pic of its beautiful historic church and pic of the old Jacobean "treble-decker" pulpit - pic of inquisitive sheep & lambs near the place of the girls' Cowan Bridge school - pics of Roman votive stone & of the 13th century parish chest at church where the sisters worshipped twice each sunday while at school - a painting of "Ruskin's View" |
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Charlotte had two older sisters Maria and Elizabeth, who both died before Charlotte reached the age of ten. It was Charlotte and her two younger sisters (Emily and Anne) who were the members of the family to achieve fame. Her brother (Patrick Branwell) showed great promise in learning and his translation of Horace even received the praise of the great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But sad to say her brother Branwell never did become a famous author. He became only a railway clerk with some ability as an artist with more than a taste for drink - - (more of Branwell later on - page 2). |
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We now see a painting of the Haworth Parsonage located in Yorkshire, U.K. |
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In 1820, this house became the home of the Revd. Patrick & Mrs Bront� and their 6 children under the age of seven. The house became the life-long home of 3 young poets, and they eventually in 1846 managed to publish their works under the pseudonyms of Currer Bell, Ellis Bell and Acton Bell. |
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A visit to Haworth (correctly pronounced "Howerth") will help you to see and understand the home and background of the Bront�s in a way not possible from books, and you can feel the atmosphere which they have given to Haworth. It enables you to appreciate much more than before the wonder of their work as you have the opportunity to gaze at the the personal relics of the family in their very own home. |
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The rooms of the parsonage are sparingly furnished and it is soon obvious that the Bront�s grew up in a time when the only lighting in the home was provided by oil lamps, candles and open fires. Perhaps it could have been the candle-light which helped in the creation of those haunting books, for it is a fact that fire-light and candle-light flickers and throws distorted shadows we never see in these days of electric lighting. It is also worth noting that all the parsonage front-windows faced the bleak churchyard, with its ever increasing rows of graves and headstones reminding the Bront� girls constantly of human mortality. But the Bront�s would have accepted all the children's headstones visible from their home as just part of the normal life they saw everyday from their nursery window.
An official report mentioned later on page 3 of this "Bront� Corner" revealed that 41.6% of the population died even before reaching the age of six |
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Alterations in the 19th Century and more recent Restoration Work since 1928
Some alterations to the Parsonage were carried out In 1872 by a Mr Wade, but apparently these were far from being satisfactory.
Then in 1928, by the generosity of a Haworth-born man who had once spoken to Charlotte Bront�, the Parsonage was acquired and placed in the care of "The Bront� Society", to be maintained as a memorial to the Bront�s and as a museum of Bront� relics.
None of the new work of renovation is visible from the front of the house (it has been carried out in local and weathered stone with the old stone roof tiles); so that if the Bront�s were now to revisit their old home they would not at first find its exterior very different from how it looked in their own day. |
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Apart from the windows, the chief restoration in the old part of the house is confined to the two most interesting ground floor rooms - the kitchen and the family dining-room. The kitchen has once again become a room, although it is still without an outside window. The restored cooking range is an 18th century one from a farm in Ingleton Fells. |
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The dining-room is the most complete work of restoration and the work upon it is specially justified because Mrs Gaskell gave so clear an account of what it was like when she visited Haworth, and also because so much of the original Bront� furniture has been returned there to its former home.
The scheme of decoration we can see now in the dining room is based upon Ellen Nussey's remembrances of early days, and upon Charlotte's own accounts. |
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Do have a look at page 3 of this "Bront� Corner" to see details of the contents and uses of the various rooms in the Parsonage. |
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Emily Jane Bront� the 4th sister (1818 to 1848), was the authoress of the famous novel "Wuthering Heights" (1847). [This is copied from a photograph of a portrait which Branwell Bront� painted in oils, and which is now in the British National Portrait Gallery] |
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This is "Top Withens" - the site of Wuthering Heights in Emily's novel. |
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"Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times. Indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way as if craving alms of the sun - -
Extract from "Wuthering Heights"
It is worth noticing that the only character whom Emily portrays harshly in her novel is one who, like her own brother Branwell, is a drunkard - - Hindley Earnshaw. |
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Anne Bront� the youngest girl (1820 to 1849), was the authoress of "Agnes Grey" (1847) and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (1848) |
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In the Bront� Parsonage Museum there are printed copies of one of Anne's poems, "The Narrow Way", printed with two musical settings including descants. The older setting was specially arranged for the well-known Skipton Male Voice choir, and the more recent music was composed in 1948 for the centenary of the year in which Anne wrote it. [ See pics below ] |
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Front cover of "A Poem by Anne Bront� - Set to music by J. H. Rhodes L.T.S.C., Organist & Choirmaster of Haworth Parish Church" |
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Back cover of the musical setting of Anne's poem "The Narrow Way" (1848) - arranged for the Skipton Male Voice Choir. |
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Email Tigger, Eeyore & Pooh at:[email protected] |
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Click "Site Map" for details of the 29 pages on Tigger & Eeyore n Pooh's Website |
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Number of visits to Tigger & Eeyore n Pooh's Bronte #1 page since
October 28th 2000 |
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by Tigger & Pooh n Eeyore on
August 23rd 2006 |
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