Something I didn’t know: Bronte edition

So I was back home for a couple of weeks, and went to the Bronte parsonage for the first time in ages.

Here is something I didn’t know: look at this for a gothic two-year sequence of events (credit).

  • October 19, 1847: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre published
  • December 1847: Anne’s Agnes Grey published
  • December 1847: Emily’s Wuthering Heights published
  • June 1848: Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall published
  • September 24, 1848: Branwell dies of tuberculosis (age 31)
  • December 19, 1848: Emily dies of tuberculosis (age 30)
  • May 28, 1849: Anne dies of tuberculosis (age 29)
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