![]() ![]() Unsurprisingly for four children without a mother, the children grew up to be extremely close. The rest of their education was formed from the teachings they received from their aunt and from their wide and varied reading. ![]() Charlotte received two and a half years of formal education, Anne received only two years, and Emily just a year and a half. While Branwell attended Haworth Grammar school for a short period of time, the girls were sent individually and collectively to boarding schools. Raised by a busy cleric and their mother’s spinster sister, the three sisters and their brother Branwell were left largely on their own. As a pastor, Patrick Brontë performed many baptisms and nearly as many funerals, two of which were for his eldest daughters, who died at the ages of ten and eleven, and one for his wife, who lived to be thirty-eight. First recorded as a village in 1209, the area was, like all of Yorkshire, victimized by ravages of the Industrial Revolution: when the Brontës arrived, the town was overcrowded and unhygienic, with a life expectancy in the area of only twenty-two years. In 1820, Patrick and Maria Brontë moved their family of six children to Haworth, a hamlet in West Yorkshire ninety kilometers (or fifty-six miles) from the forenamed city. ![]()
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