MUSEUM EYE Brontë Parsonage Museum

Haworth, Yorkshire bronte.org.uk By Tony Canavan In the townland of Emdale, Co. Down, are the ruins of a little cottage that has a bronze plaque with the inscription: ‘Patrick Brontë, father of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, was born here on 17th March 1777’. From such humble Irish beginnings sprang three of the most famous ... Read more

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