To Walk Invisible The Brontë Sisters follows the Brontë sisters in the eventful three-year period that saw them rise from ordinary, unmarried women, taking care of the household and their ...

A year after the family arrived there in 1820, the children’s mother, Maria, died; two elder sisters had also died young (the one son, Branwell, died of consumption hastened by addiction to laudanum ...

She said: “The names of the Brontë sisters were spelled incorrectly. They didn’t have the correct punctuation on the E, so it sounded more like ‘Bront’ not ‘Brontë’.” She said she ...

Wainwright believes the Brontës’ subsequent need for money meant that, “Branwell’s decline was instrumental in pushing the sisters to write.” Physically, the sisters were opposites.

Although the youngest of the Brontë sisters was a notoriously private figure and never married (she died from tuberculosis aged just 30), the new film imagines a more dramatic backdrop to her ...

The dots - which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” - were omitted ... Raised on the wild ...