Branwell Brontë

Youth

Fourth of six children, Branwell Brontë is the single son of Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell Brontë. It is born with Thornton and settles with its family with Haworth, when his/her father is named with the perpetual Cure in 1821.

Of the four Brontë children to have reached the adulthood, Branwell seems to be looked in its family like most talented, at least during its childhood and its youth. While four of his/her sisters are sent to the boarding school of Cowan Bridge (leading to died of his/her two older sisters Maria and Elizabeth), Branwell remains at the house where it profits from the teaching exempted by his father, who gives him a traditional education favourable with the admission with Oxford or Cambridge.

Branwell collaborates in work of writing of his/her sisters during childhood and adolescence, creating imaginary worlds. The vestiges of its youthful works show that he collaborated more particularly with Charlotte in their imaginary world Angria.

Adult

Young man, Branwell Brontë is trained as portraitist with Haworth and exerts this work with Bradford in 1838 and 1839. Its most famous portrait is that of his/her three sisters (on whom it seems to be made appear initially). He wants to become painter and share with London to study the fine arts. But he will never manage to live of his art nor to even finish most of his tables.

In 1840, Branwell becomes tutor of young boys in a family with Broughton-in-Furness, but it is congédié at the end of six months. During this time, it carried out a translation of Horace. Thereafter, it is employed at the railway station of Luddenden Foot in 1841, but it is returned in 1842, because of a deficit discovered in the accounts (allotted to its incompetence). During this period, where he works like tutor, then in the railroads, he maintains the literary ambitions and publishes poems under various Pseudonyme S in the press of the Yorkshire.

In 1843, Branwell finds a new place of tutor of the young person wire of the family Robinson, landowners, in Thorp Green. It obtained this place thanks to his Anne sister, who is controlling it of the two oldest daughters of Robinson. During this time, it corresponds with some of his old friends in connection with his passion growing with regard to Lydia Robinson. It is congédié for reasons not specified in 1845: he was said, because of the report/ratio that he made deal with his own family, silence of the Robinson family on the reasons of this reference, finally, of gifts of money that Mrs Robinson made him pass through its servants, that he had a connection with Mrs Robinson and that the connection was discovered by the husband. Branwell finds its family with the presbytery of Haworth, now known like the Museum of the Brontë presbytery. It is devastated by the loss of Mrs Robinson and increasing to re-examine it and dark improbability in alcoholism. (it would have even become dependant with the Laudanum). Its behavior becomes irrational and dangerous, being victim of access of Délirium tremens. The letters of Charlotte of this time reveal that the attitude of his/her brother the horripile, but that his/her father is patient with his broken son. Although it either at that time that the first novels of his/her sisters are accepted by an editor, it is not certain that it was informed.

The dependence of Branwell hides a beginning of Tuberculose, and its family does not realize that it is seriously sick until it collapses outside the house and which a local doctor identifies the final stages of the disease. The primary symptoms of this disease not having been detected in time, he dies a little later in manner intrigante, while he draws up himself and leans against the mantelpiece, simply to prove that he of it is able.

It remains of him some tables, in particular a portrait of his three sisters, as well as poems and texts of youth written in collaboration with his sisters, in particular Charlotte, with whom it had worked out an imaginary world, Angria .

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