We’ve entered the first of the bicentenary celebrations for the births of the four Brontë siblings who grew to adulthood: Charlotte in 1816, Branwell in 1817, Emily in 1818, and Anne in 1820. Many people reading this essay will, I hope, be alive at the bicentenary of their deaths: Branwell and Emily in 1848, Anne […]

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