Bronte Timeline

  • Patrick becomes curate at Thornton

  • Charlotte is born

  • Branwell is born

  • Emily is born

  • Anne is born

  • Patrick becomes curate at Haworth

  • Maria dies

  • Elizabeth dies

  • Charlotte attends Roe Head school

    p. 23-25
  • Branwell fails to attend the Royal Academy

  • Charlotte teaches at Roe Head

    Emily attends
  • Anne takes Emily's place

  • Emily teaches at Law Hill

  • Charlotte and Anne return

    Anne falls ill
  • Branwell goes to Bradford

    Tries his hand at painting
  • Emily returns

  • Anne works for Ingham family

    Governess
  • Anne is dismissed

  • Anne works for Robinson family

    Governess
  • Branwell works at railway

    Sowerby Bridge. p.32-33
  • Charlotte and Emily travel to Brussels

    Attend the pensionnat Heger
  • Charlotte and Emily return

  • Branwell becomes tutor for the Robinsons

    Charlotte teaches in Brussels
  • Charlotte returns

  • Anne resigns

    p. 55
  • Branwell is dismissed after affair

    p. 8-17/25-27/41-54
  • Sisters' poems are published

    Under the alias' Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. p. 34
  • Jane Eyre is published

    Written by Charlotte
  • Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights publshed

    Written by Anne and Emily in December
  • Tenant of Wildfell Hall published

    Written by Anne
  • Branwell dies

    p. 70-72
  • Emily dies

    p. 77
  • Anne dies

    p. 78
  • Villette is published

    Written by Charlotte
  • Charlotte marries Arthur Bell Nicholls

    p. 75-82
  • Charlotte dies while pregnant

    p. 82-83
  • The Professor is published

    Written by Charlotte
  • Patrick dies

  • Polly Teale writes Bronte