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30/07/1818 Emily Jane Bronte, fifth child of the Bronte family was born at Thornton.
20/08/1818 Emily Jane Bronte, fifth child of the Bronte family was baptised.
25/11/1824 Emily Bronte was sent to the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge.
24/11/1834 Emily Bronte wrote: I fed Rainbow, Diamond, Snowflake Jasper pheasent alias this morning. Branwell went down to Mr Drivers and brought news that Sir Robert Peel was going to be invited to stand for Leeds. Anne and I have been peeling apples for Charlotte to make an apple pudding.....Taby said just now come Anne pillopatate..."
07/08/1837 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "O God of Heaven! The dream of horror".
04/12/1838 Emily Bronte wrote the poem "A little while, a little while, The noisy crowd are barred away...".
18/12/1838 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "The Bluebell".
12/01/1839 Emily Bronte wrote the poem "The night was dark yet winter breathed...."
12/07/1839 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "And now the house-dog stretched once more".
30/09/1839 Emily Bronte wrote the poem "The organ swells the trumpets sound".
14/11/1839 Emily Bronte wrote the poem "Well, some may hate, and some may scorn, And some may quite forget thy name...".
06/01/1840 Emily Bronte wrote the poem "Thy son is near meridian height, and my sun sinks in endless night...".
01/03/1841 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "Riches I hold in light esteem and Love I laugh to scorn...".
16/07/1841 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "Aye, there it is! It wakes tonight".
11/03/1844 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "The Wanderer from the Fold".
01/05/1844 Emily Bronte wrote a poem "The linnet in the rocky dells, The moor-lark in the air...".
03/02/1845 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "The Philosopher".
03/03/1845 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "Remembrance".
10/04/1845 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "Death".
14/04/1845 Emily Bronte wrote the poem Stars: "....All through the night, your glorious eyes were gazing down in mine,..."
02/01/1846 Emily Bronte wrote her poem "No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...".
25/01/1846 Emily Bronte wrote the poem, "No coward soul is mine No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...".
07/05/1846 First printed copies of the Book of "Poems" by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte arrived at the Parsonage. They had used the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
04/07/1846 The published Bronte Poems using the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell received favourable criticism. Only two copies were sold.
14/09/1846 Emily Bronte wrote the poem “Why ask to know the date – the clime?”.
04/07/1847 The manuscripts of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were sent to the publishers; T.C. Newby. They were published in December 1847.
14/12/1847 Emily and Anne received six published copies of their novels, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey from their publishers.
16/11/1848 Emily Brontes health was poor. Charlotte Bronte wrote of her sister having difficulty breathing and pains in her chest.
19/12/1848 Emily Bronte died at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. She was 30 years old.
22/12/1848 Emily Bronte was buried in the family vault at Haworth Parish Church. She had died on 19th December aged 30.
22/05/1850 Charlotte Bronte wrote of her dead sister Emily Bronte:
"For my part I am free to walk on the moors - but when I go out there alone - everything reminds me of the times when others were with me and then the moors seem a wilderness, featureless, solitary, saddening - My sister Emily had a particular love for them , and there is not a knoll of heather, not a branch of fern, not a young bilberry leaf not a fluttering lark or linnet but reminds me of her."
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21/04/1816 Charlotte Bronte, third child of the Bronte family was born at Thornton.
29/06/1816 Charlotte Bronte third child of the Bronte family was baptised at Thornton.
26/02/1817 Mary Taylor close friend of Charlotte Bronte was born.
10/08/1824 Charlotte Bronte was sent to the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge.
12/03/1829 "I am in the Kitchen of the Parsonage house Haworth. Tabby the servant is washing up after breakfast and Anne my youngest sister is kneeling on a chair looking at some cakes which Tabby has been baking for us. Emily is in the parlour brushing it, papa and Branwell are gone to Keighley. Aunt is up stairs in her room and I am sitting by the table writing this in the kitchen." Charlotte Bronte - The History of the Year.
22/08/1830 Charlotte Bronte wrote her poem "Morning".
29/07/1835 Charlotte Bronte went as teacher to Miss Wooler's school Roe Head. Emily accompanied her as a pupil.
12/03/1837 Charlotte Bronte received a letter from Robert Southey - The Poet Laureate: "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life: & it ought not to be."
26/03/1839 Charlotte Bronte wrote her poem "Life".
02/03/1841 Charlotte Bronte became a governess for the White family who lived at Upperwood House, Rawdon, near Bradford.
12/12/1841 Charlotte Bronte wrote her poem "Passion".
29/12/1843 Charlotte Bronte received a Diploma from the Pensionnat at Brussels.
01/01/1844 Charlotte Bronte left the Penssionat at Brussels for home. While studying there she had received a Diploma.
03/01/1844 Charlotte Bronte arrived back home at Haworth Parsonage, she had been studying at the Heger's Pensionnat at Brussels.
06/02/1846 Charlotte Bronte sent a manuscript of poems to Messrs. Aylott and Jones publishers. They used the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
06/04/1846 Charlotte Bronte wrote to publisher Aylott & Jones:
"C.E & A Bell are now preparing for the Press a work of fiction - consisting of three distinct and unconnected tales which may be published together as a work of 3 vols. of ordinary novel-size, or separately as single vols - as shall be deemed most advisable."
07/05/1846 First printed copies of the Book of "Poems" by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte arrived at the Parsonage. They had used the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
04/07/1846 The published Bronte Poems using the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell received favourable criticism. Only two copies were sold.
15/12/1846 Charlotte Bronte wrote: "I hope you are not frozen up; the cold here is dreadful. I do not remember such a series of North-Pole days. England might really have taken a slide up into the Arctic Zone; the sky looks like ice; the earth is frozen; the wind is as keen as a two-edged blade."
15/07/1847 Charlotte Bronte sent the manuscript of the "Professor" to the publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill. It was not published.
24/08/1847 Charlotte Bronte's manuscript of Jane Eyre was sent to the publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill.
16/10/1847 Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
19/10/1847 Charlotte Bronte received copies of her published novel "Jane Eyre".
10/12/1847 Charlotte Bronte received payment for her novel Jane Eyre which was published on 16th October 1847.
08/07/1848 Charlotte and Anne Bronte visited London to meet their publisher and revealed their true identity. The Bronte sisters had been using the pseudonyms Acton Currer and Bell.
29/08/1849 Charlotte Bronte completed her novel Shirley.
26/10/1849 Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley was published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
22/05/1850 Charlotte Bronte wrote of her dead sister Emily Bronte:
"For my part I am free to walk on the moors - but when I go out there alone - everything reminds me of the times when others were with me and then the moors seem a wilderness, featureless, solitary, saddening - My sister Emily had a particular love for them , and there is not a knoll of heather, not a branch of fern, not a young bilberry leaf not a fluttering lark or linnet but reminds me of her."
09/06/1850 Charlotte Bronte met the Duke of Wellington at the Chapel Royal London.
13/06/1850 Charlotte Bronte sat for her portrait. She was drawn by the artist George Redmond.
29/03/1852 Charlotte Bronte completed the first draft of her novel "Villette".
23/05/1852 Charlotte Bronte visited Filey staying at the same lodgings she and Ellen Nussey had stayed after Anne's death. Charlotte went to visit Anne’s grave and discovered a number of errors on the Gravestone, in particular Anne's age, the date on the stone is 28, she was 29 when she died.
13/12/1852 Arthur Bell Nicholls proposed to Charlotte Bronte. Charlotte informed her father who was not pleased about the marriage proposal. She wrote to Nicholls rejecting him.
28/01/1853 Charlotte Bronte's novel Villette was published.
19/09/1853 Elizabeth Gaskell who wrote "The life of Charlotte Bronte" visited Charlotte Bronte at Haworth.
11/04/1854 Arthur Bell Nicholls proposed to Charlotte Bronte who accepted.
29/06/1854 Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls were married at Haworth Church at 8.00am in the morning. 2004 wedding re-enactment here...
01/08/1854 Charlotte Bronte and Arthur Bell Nicholls returned to Haworth from their honeymoon in Ireland. They were married on 29th June 1854.
29/11/1854 Charlotte Bronte and her husband Arthur Nicholls walked to what is now known as the Bronte waterfalls. Charlotte had wished to see the waterfall in all its glory as heavy rain and melting snow had turned the water into a "perfect torrent".
30/01/1855 Charlotte Bronte was examined by Dr Mc Turk and was found to be pregnant.
31/03/1855 Charlotte Bronte died at Haworth, she was 38 years of age. There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping A remembrance in one's heart:
Parting by Charlotte Bronte
04/04/1855 Charlotte Bronte was buried in the family vault at Haworth Parish Church. She had died on 31st March aged 38.
23/07/1855 Elizabeth Gaskell visited Haworth to meet Patrick Bronte to discuss the biography of Charlotte Bronte.
07/02/1857 The manuscript of the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" by Elizabeth Gaskell was completed.
25/03/1857 The "Life of Charlotte Bronte" by Elizabeth Gaskell was published.
06/06/1857 Charlotte Bronte's previously rejected novel "The Professor" was published.
25/08/1864 Arthur Bell Nichols married again.
01/03/1893 Mary Taylor close friend of Charlotte Bronte died.
26/11/1897 Ellen Nussey, Charlotte Bronte's life long friend died aged 80
02/12/1906 Arthur Bell Nicholls husband of Charlotte Bronte died. He was 87.
http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/charlotte/chronology.asp © Haworth - village.org.uk 2001-2008
10/11/1842 Anne Bronte wrote her poem "To Cowper".
31/10/1843 Anne Bronte wrote her poem "The Captive Dove".
18/01/1845 Anne and Branwell Bronte returned to their employment as tutors for the Robinson family at Thorp Green.
20/05/1845 Anne Bronte wrote her poem "If this be all".
07/05/1846 First printed copies of the Book of "Poems" by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte arrived at the Parsonage. They had used the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
04/07/1846 The published Bronte Poems using the pseudonym of Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell received favourable criticism. Only two copies were sold.
04/07/1847 The manuscripts of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were sent to the publishers; T.C. Newby. They were published in December 1847.
14/12/1847 Emily and Anne received six published copies of their novels, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey from their publishers.
08/07/1848 Charlotte and Anne Bronte visited London to meet their publisher and revealed their true identity. The Bronte sisters had been using the pseudonyms Acton Currer and Bell.
22/07/1848 Anne Bronte finished the preface to the second edition of her novel the Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
05/01/1849 Anne Bronte caught influenza, consumption was diagnosed in both lungs.
24/05/1849 Charlotte and Anne Bronte went to Scarborough with Ellen Nussey. Anne’s health was declining.
28/05/1849 Anne Bronte died at 2 o'clock in the afternoon aged 29 at Scarborough.
30/05/1849 Anne Bronte was buried at St Mary's churchyard Castle Hill Scarborough. She had died on 28th May aged 29.
http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/anne/chronology.asp © Haworth - village.org.uk 2001-2008
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