Charlotte would use her experiences and knowledge of the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre. After the deaths of his older daughters, Patrick removed Charlotte and Emily from the school. Ĭharlotte maintained that the school's poor conditions permanently affected her health and physical development and that it had hastened the deaths of Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who both died in 1825. The four youngest Brontë children, all under ten years of age, had suffered the loss of the three eldest women in their immediate family. Maria, who may actually have had tuberculosis, was sent home, where she died. At school, however, the children suffered abuse and privations, and when a typhoid epidemic swept the school, Maria and Elizabeth became ill. At the age of six, on 25 November 1824, Emily joined her sisters at school for a brief period. The younger children were to be cared for by Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt and Maria's sister.Įmily's three elder sisters, Maria, Elizabeth, and Charlotte, were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge.
When Emily was only three, and all six children under the age of eight, she and her siblings lost their mother, Maria, to cancer on 15 September 1821. In Haworth, the children would have opportunities to develop their literary talents. Shortly thereafter, the family moved eight miles away to Haworth, where Patrick was employed as perpetual curate. In 1820, Emily's younger sister Anne, the last Brontë child, was born. Emily was the second youngest of six siblings, preceded by Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte and Branwell. The family was living on Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. (Branwell used to be between Emily and Charlotte, but subsequently painted himself out.)Įmily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 to Maria Branwell and an Irish father, Patrick Brontë.
From left to right: Anne, Emily and Charlotte. The three Brontë sisters, in an 1834 painting by their brother Branwell Brontë.
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