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  • Essay / The Brontë Sisters - 640

    Moreover, examining in depth the different aspects of the Brontë sisters' journey and childhood promises a deep understanding of this artistic synergy between them. Anne Brontë was born in 1820 in Thornton; West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She is the youngest member of the family (“Anne Bronte”). As reported by Juliet Barker in her research work The Brontes, Patrick Branwel, Anne's father, was installed as a vicar in a small town called Haworth. This is why the members of the Bronte family found themselves a vicarage in Haworth, a vicarage which they took as their home. Anne was a baby when her mother (Maria Branwell) suffered from uterine cancer which caused her death in 1821 (Barker: 102-104). In another biography titled The Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and her Family, Rebecca Frazer points out that Patrick Branwell's longing to recover loss drove him to seek a new married life. However, all attempts were a failure (Frazer: 30). Winifred Gérin in her biography entitled Anne Brontë further reports that to save the children and take care of them, Elizabeth Branwell - Maria's sister - came to live at the rectory. When they lived together, the aunt was a little closer to Anne than to the other children. In fact, Anne was his dearest and took infinite pleasure in his company. Their closeness was so intense that much can be said about the origin of Anne's moral and Christian temperament. It is largely thanks to the aunt's teachings that Anne's true personality was forged (Gérin: 35). Regarding the education of the Brontë children, Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell, as Frazer further argues, were home-schooled, as they were supervised at home by their father and aunt (Frazer: 44 -45). More importantly, the children... middle of paper ...... is their first joint publication of poems which appeared in 1846 under the male pseudonyms of Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily) and Acton Bell (“Anne Brontë” ). Not only is the sisters' literary relationship revealed in the many fundamental artistic interests they shared, but their literary synergy could also be manifested in their reactions to and critiques of each other's works. An argument that was made by Edward Chitham in his book A Life of Anne Bronte, when he wrote: “Anne's artistic and moral challenge to the content of her sisters' novels takes place at Wildfell Hall. Until this is recognized, readers may see the book as a pale version of Wuthering Heights, when it is, in some ways, a critique of it” (Chitham: 134). The tenant's response to Wuthering Heights as well as Jane Eyre is also witnessed. by the following lines taken from the same book by Edward Chitham: