- Bronte sisters
- nouna 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels• Instance Hypernyms: ↑family, ↑family unit
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Brontë sisters — Charlotte Brontë (1816–55), Emily Brontë (1818–48) and Anne Brontë (1820–49), three British writers who lived most of their lives in Haworth, a small village in Yorkshire, England, where their father was the local Anglican priest. They began to… … Universalium
The Bronte Sisters — Infobox Film name = The Bronte Sisters (Les Soeurs Brontë) image size =175px caption = director = André Téchiné producer = Yves Gasser Klaus Hellwig Yves Peyrot writer = Pascal Bonitzer André Téchiné starring = Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert… … Wikipedia
(the) Brontë sisters — the Brontë sisters [the Bront sisters] Charlotte Brontë (1816–55), Emily Brontë (1818–48) and Anne Brontë (1820–49), three British writers who lived most of their lives in ↑Haworth, a small village in ↑Yorkshire, England, where their father was… … Useful english dictionary
Brontë Parsonage Museum — The Brontë Parsonage Museum is maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the famed Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë and is located in Haworth, West Yorkshire, an area of England covered in much open, expansive moorland. It is… … Wikipedia
Brontë — The Brontë sisters (pronEng|ˈbrɒnte), Charlotte (21 April 1816 ndash; 31 March 1855), Emily (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) and Anne (17 January 1820 ndash; 28 May 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a… … Wikipedia
Brontë Family — : Charlotte (1816 1855), Emily (1818 1848), Anne (1820 1849) The Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell, were born to Patrick Brontë, the Irish born rector of Haworth in Yorkshire. The girls have all become household names for their… … British and Irish poets
Brontë Country — The Brontë Country is a name given to an area of south Pennine hills west of Leeds/Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The name comes from the Brontë sisters, who wrote such literary classics as Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), Wuthering Heights… … Wikipedia
Brontë, Emily — ▪ British author Introduction pseudonym Ellis Bell born July 30, 1818, Thornton, Yorkshire, Eng. died Dec. 19, 1848, Haworth, Yorkshire English novelist and poet who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative novel … Universalium
Bronte — noun 1. English novelist; youngest of three Bronte sisters (1820 1849) • Syn: ↑Anne Bronte • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author 2. English novelist; one of three Bronte sisters (1818 1848) • Syn: ↑Emily Bronte … Useful english dictionary
Brontë Parsonage Museum — 53°49′52.6″N 1°57′26.8″O / 53.831278, 1.957444 … Wikipédia en Français
