📝Elizabeth Branwell was the aunt of the literary sisters Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë. 📝Called ‘Aunt Branwell’, she helped raise the Brontë children after her sister, Maria Branwell, died in 1821. 📝When Elizabeth Branwell took over the care of her nieces and nephew, the oldest, Maria, was seven years old while the youngest, Anne, was only twenty months. 📝When the two eldest girls, Maria and Elizabeth, died from tuberculosis contracted at the Cowan Bridge School, Patrick decided to keep the children at home where he and Elizabeth would oversee their education. 📝Elizabeth Branwell subscribed to several magazines that the children enjoyed reading as youths. 📝Elizabeth Branwell subscribed to several magazines that the children enjoyed reading as youths. 📝She gave the girls money to open a boarding school, though the project failed to attract any pupils. 📝 She also paid for Charlotte and Emily’s trip to Brussels to study French.
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