Bronte Parsonage Museum is a writer's house museum maintained by the Bronte Society in honour of the Bronte sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
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10 Facts About Bronte Parsonage
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Bronte Parsonage is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England.
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In 1820, Patrick Bronte was appointed incumbent of St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth, and arrived at the parsonage with his wife Maria and six children.
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Patrick Bronte was a published author of poetry and fiction and his children grew up accustomed to the sight of books carrying their family name on the parsonage shelves.
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On 15 September 1821, Maria Bronte Parsonage died of cancer, and her unmarried sister, Elizabeth Branwell, came to run the household, exchanging her home in Penzance for the harsh climate of a bleak northern township.
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Bronte Parsonage married her father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls in Haworth Church on 29 June 1854.
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Bronte Parsonage died on 31 March 1855, in the early stages of pregnancy, three weeks before her 39th birthday.
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Patrick Bronte lived at the parsonage for six more years, cared for by his son-in-law, and died there on 7 June 1861, at the age of 84.
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Bronte Parsonage equipped it as a museum and gave it to the Bronte Society.
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Bronte Parsonage was used as a location in the 1970 film The Railway Children, where it featured as the home of Dr Forrest.
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