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#otd 1849 Shirley by Charlotte Bronte was published (pictures are from my Dulac edition). Written at a time of tragedy when her three remaining siblings died, I find it a very moving book. The heroines Shirley and Caroline are based on Emily and Anne Bronte.

#otd 1855, 3 months after Charlotte Bronte's death, Elizabeth Gaskell visits Haworth at Patrick Bronte's request. He has asked Elizabeth to write a biography of her friend Charlotte. The result was one of the greatest literary biographies of all time.

One of the great things about the Bronte Parsonage Museum is that their collection spans the breadth of the sublime and the everyday. This beautiful item is a cashmere shawl that belonged to Maria Bronte, mother of the six Bronte siblings:

This is 'Portrait Of A Young Woman' by Anne Bronte. I believe it's a self-portrait, and shows Anne as an adult rather than in the earlier drawings of her by Charlotte Bronte such as figure two:

#otd 1817 Ellen Nussey was born. She became the lifelong friend of Charlotte Bronte, and it's thanks to her preservation of a large collection of Charlotte's letters that we know so much about the Brontes. A loyal and loving friend to the very end - Happy 204th Birthday Ellen!

#otd 1783 Maria Branwell is born in Penzance, Cornwall - she became mother of the most famous writing siblings of them all - the Brontes. Here she is in 1799, in blue (centre front) in a Penzance mural, and here also is the house she grew up:

A bit late to #nationalpetday yesterday, but it's never too late to see these lovely pictures of the Bronte pets by Emily and Anne Bronte:

#otd 1840 Charlotte Bronte writes a long, amusing letter to Ellen Nussey in which, at its close, she reveals how she is painting a picture of Agnes Walton for William Weightman, just as she will have Jane Eyre paint Rosamond Oliver for St. John Rivers:

On this day 1846 C. E. & A. Bell begin to write to publishers offering their new endeavour - three works of fiction. They are of course Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte and these are the three works they were offering:

Easter Monday is a day for relaxing, eating chocolate and reading. Easter is also, of course, associated with spring and blooming flowers, so here are four beautiful flower pictures by Charlotte Bronte - like all her siblings, a talented artist: