Bronte, Branwell

Brenwell Bronte was the fourth child of six children and the only son of Patrick Bronte and his wife, Maria Brenwell Bronte. Born in Thornton , near Bradford , Yorkshire , and later moved with his family to Hoert , where his father was ordained a priest in 1821.

While four of his sisters were sent to study at the Cowan Bridge Guesthouse, Branwell studied at home with his father, who gave his son a classical education.

Brenwell Bronte, like his sisters, has been addicted to writing since childhood. The sketches of an extensive narrative about the fictional country of Angria, written by Brenwell together with Charlotte (Emily and Anne at the same time invented their own fantastic country - Gondal, "a huge island in the North Pacific ") have survived.

In his youth, Brenwell Bronte studied portraiture in Hoert; in 1838 and 1839 he worked as an artist in Bradford . One of his most famous works is a self-portrait surrounded by sisters (later, Branwell erased his own image).

In 1840, Bronte began to teach with a boy in a wealthy family, but after six months of work there he was fired. At this time, he worked on translations of Hode's Od. In 1841, he was hired by the railway station, but a year later he was accused of embezzlement (under him a shortage of 11 pounds was discovered). During the entire period of work in the family and at the station, Branwell wrote for the Yorkshire newspapers under all sorts of pseudonyms.

In 1843, Bronte entered a new job as a teacher with the son of a priest, Edmund Robinson. He got this job thanks to his sister Ann, who served as a governess in the Robinson family with two older daughters. During his stay in the family, he passionately became interested in Mr. Robinson's wife, Lydia. Mrs. Robinson was reckless in communicating with her lover, repeatedly passing money to him through the servant. In 1845, Robinson's husband revealed treason and fired Branwell Bronte.

After returning to Hoert, Branwell began to abuse alcohol and opium (he started drinking and taking drugs from his youth). Gradually, Brenwell’s actions became dangerous and unpredictable, often there were attacks of delirium tremens . During these years, the first novels of the Brenwell sisters began to be accepted by publishers, but Brenwell did not care. Branwell’s serious drug and alcohol addiction led to poor health, after which he contracted tuberculosis . The Branwell family had no idea how seriously ill he was; a local doctor was diagnosed already at the last stage of the disease. September 24, 1848, Branwell Bronte died ^[6] . Brenwell’s sister Emily died of tuberculosis in December of that year, and Ann died in May 1849.

• Brenwell Bronte’s love affair with Mrs. Robinson is reflected in the 1967 film Graduate , which tells the story of a young man seduced by a mature lady named Robinson Ben Braddock.
• Brenwell Bronte and his sisters are the main characters of the play by "March Storms" ( Eng. The Gales of March ; 1987).
• The British writer Daphne Dumorier , who had been interested in the life and work of Brenwell Bronte for many years, published his fictionalized biography in 1960, The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, the Infernal World of Branwell . The events that preceded, accompanied and followed the writing of Daphne Dumurier's biography of Branwell are the subject of the book of modern British writer Justine Picardie Daphne ^[7] , in which Dumorie’s passion for Brenwell’s personality is compared with “obsession”.
• On June 1, 2009, the exhibition “Sex, Drugs and Literature - the Infernal World of Brenwell Bronte” opened in the Bronte Family Museum in Hoert, dedicated to the tragic life of the only son in the Bronte family ^[8] .

• Hoerthe Bronte Museum
• Brenwell Bronte's Poems