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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