Being the Brontes
Season 2016Episode 83Season 2016Episode 85

E84 Being the Brontes

BBC Documentaries / Season 2016 / Episode 84

26 Mar, 2016 · 1h

 
Season 2016Episode 83Season 2016Episode 85

E84 Being the Brontes

BBC Documentaries / Season 2016 / Episode 84

26 Mar, 2016 · 1h

 

Martha Kearney is joined by author Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth by exploring the life and times of the author and her siblings Emily and Anne. Travelling to the Haworth Parsonage in West Yorkshire, the trio discover how just two years before their most famous novels were published in 1847, the sisters' prospects were bleak. Charlotte was in love with... see more

Martha Kearney is joined by author Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth by exploring the life and times of the author and her siblings Emily and Anne. Travelling to the Haworth Parsonage in West Yorkshire, the trio discover how just two years before their most famous novels were published in 1847, the sisters' prospects were bleak. Charlotte was in love with... see more
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