(the) Brontë sisters

(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 the local ↑Anglican priest. They began to write poetry and novels when they were very young, creating imaginary worlds when they were alone in the Yorkshire countryside. They died before their best-known books, including Charlotte’s ↑Jane Eyre, Emily’s ↑Wuthering Heights and Anne’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), became the famous works of English literature that they are today.

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