Something I didn’t know: Bronte edition

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            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)