Charlotte (1816–1848)
Emily (1818-1848)
Anne (1820-1849)
Haworth in West Yorkshire was home to the Bronte family and their place is now a museum. Originally the Parsonage (with cemetery adjacent) the four children (or at least those that survived a time) grew up here. Although brother Bramwell (1817-1848) wrote, it was his sisters Charlotte (1816 – 1848) author of Jayne Eyre, Emily (1818-1848) author of Wuthering Heights and Anne (1820-1849) author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall who are most revered for their writing, although early works used androgynous pseudonyms until their careers were established. Perhaps it isn’t so much that Bramwell’s writing was bad, it was just that his sisters’ works were absolutely smashing it.
The Bronte Sisters statue was created in 1951 by local Halifax lass Jocelyn Horner. Born in 1902 she studied alongside the infamous Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Created in bronze it stands in the side garden of the museum near a self-portrait carving of Bramwell.
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