Haworth
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Sep 21, 2026
Tabitha SyrettHOST
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Dominic SandbrookHOST
I know, but I feel really responsible 'cause we were discussing how to pronounce it and I said, "I'm sure it's Hayworth," and actually it's Haworth.
Tabitha SyrettHOST
I very much left this portion of the notes to you, Dominic, 'cause I just don't wanna come under fire again.
Tabitha SyrettHOST
I don't want, I don't want the East of Eden treatment.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
This is, like, a massive trauma for you.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
Anyway, [laughs] so Charlotte Brontë is the third of six children, to remind people, born to Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell in this Yorkshire village of Thornton, and when she's four, they move to a parsonage at Haworth on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, and Patrick has got basically a full-time job there.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
Now, Patrick is an extraordinary character.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
We talked about him in the Wuthering Heights episode.
SamHOST
Yeah.
SamHOST
And wasn't there a photo studio at one point as well in Haworth?
Ruth RossingtonGUEST
I think there were several.
Ruth RossingtonGUEST
We know there was a photographer called Jay Moore who worked out of Howarth.
Ruth RossingtonGUEST
But this was a lifelong friendship.
Ruth RossingtonGUEST
They were pretty much inseparable at school.
Ruth RossingtonGUEST
Ellen would come and visit Haworth, stay with the family.
Ruth RossingtonGUEST
So we rely on her a lot to know what daily life was like for the family.
KateHOST
But it was their time at Coen Bridge that would have a far greater impact on their lives and, of course, their futures.
KateHOST
In 1824, Maria and Elizabeth Bronte were sent to Coen Bridge School, a boarding school for daughters of clergymen located about 45 miles away from their home in Haworth.
KateHOST
The school had only been open for a few months when the Brontes arrived, and although it was capable of accommodating up to 60 odd girls, there was never that many students during their time there.
KateHOST
Maria and Elizabeth was only the 17th and 18th pupil to attend, and by the time their younger sisters, Charlotte and Emily, were withdrawn on the 1st of June in 1825, only 53 pupils were registered at the school.
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KateHOST
Elizabeth passed away on the 18th of June 1825, just six weeks after Maria's death.
KateHOST
The timing of her passing made it all that more tragic as she had only just begun to process the loss of her sister before she too succumbed to the illness.
KateHOST
The funerals for both girls took place at St Michael's and All Angels Church in Haworth where their father Patrick Bronte had preached his sermons every week there.
KateHOST
Patrick, though deeply grieved, did not conduct the service and it was overseen by the curate William Morgan, who had also been responsible for Maria's baptism what only felt like a few years before.
Jacke WilsonHOST
My understanding is they only met five times total in the next five years.
Susan DunnGUEST
Yeah, Gaskell visited Haworth once in 1853.
Susan DunnGUEST
It's great that she did because we actually get a contemporary account of Charlotte and the Parsonage, which we would not have got otherwise.
Susan DunnGUEST
And Charlotte went to Manchester, which is about 30 miles from Haworth on...
Susan DunnGUEST
Three occasions.
Susan DunnGUEST
But as you say, they really didn't see each other that often, but they had a very lively correspondence.
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Susan DunnGUEST
Patrick Bronte was very opposed to the marriage on the grounds that he thought Arthur Bell Nicholls was not worthy of his daughter.
Susan DunnGUEST
Charlotte Bronte, the great writer, and he certainly didn't earn enough for her.