E17: This Is The Story of Three Girls - The Brontës Part 3
Part three of our series brings us to the end of the story of the Brontë family. Branwell spirals out of control, while Charlotte, Emily, and Anne secretly work on their poems and novels. Will our three heroines finally publish their works, become famous and rich, and live happily ever after?
Sources and Further Reading
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Barker, J. (2012). The Brontës: Wild genius on the moors - The story of a literary family. New York : Pegasus Books. http://archive.org/details/brontswildgenius0000bark
Brontë, E. (1842). "The Butterfly”. Common Reader: Essay of the Month. https://commonreader.wustl.edu/the-butterfly/
Constantin Heger. (2026). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Constantin_Heger&oldid=1337006084
Du Maurier, D. (1961). The infernal world of Branwell Brontë. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. http://archive.org/details/infernalworldof00duma
Evans, R. L., & Henstridge, F. P. (1941). Intestinal obstruction: Etiology, mortality and early diagnosis. The Guthrie Journal, 10(4), 146–153.
Gérin, W. (1959). Anne Brontë. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. https://archive.org/details/annebronte0000wini/page/n3/mode/2up
Gérin, W. (1971). Emily Brontë: A biography. Clarendon Press. http://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-DAW-729
Hardwick, E. (1972, May 4). Working girls: The Brontës. The New York Review of Books, 18(8). https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/05/04/working-girls-the-brontes/
Haworth sanitation and the Babbage Report. (2017, March 22). Anne Brontë. https://www.annebronte.org/2017/03/22/haworth-sanitation-and-the-babbage-report/
Hughes, K. (2018, July 21). The strange cult of Emily Brontë and the “hot mess” of Wuthering Heights. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/21/emily-bronte-strange-cult-wuthering-heights-romantic-novel
Merlan, A. (2026, February 24). Bad romance / Patience rewarded. Flaming Hydra. https://flaminghydra.com/issue-508/
Patrick Brontë. (2026). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Bront%C3%AB&oldid=1331630161
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Wuthering Heights. (2026). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wuthering_Heights&oldid=1354089419#Critical_response