tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post7121669078022776086..comments2024-03-26T23:35:38.726+01:00Comments on the Brontë Sisters: They formed a sort of informal society, meeting in different placesGeri Meftah Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00596915249757782612noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7074545955842912793.post-52722472824956755132013-08-15T23:46:43.136+02:002013-08-15T23:46:43.136+02:00Fascinating research! Thank you!
It's to be ...Fascinating research! Thank you!<br /><br /> It's to be remembered Branwell was at home for some time before he passed...I believe three years. It wasn't all spent in his bed room or the Bull. ...that was at the end <br /><br /><i>This embarrassing visit is mentioned in one of Charlotte's letters and it appears the Bronte sisters settled this bill out of their own pockets.</i><br /><br />So in a way Branwell did inherit some of Aunt money after all . <br /><br />It's characteristic the sisters would step in and spare Papa the sorrow of seeing his son carted to jail and the heartbreak of personally settling his son's tavern debts with an officer of the law .<br /><br /> It was bad enough such a person came to the Parsonage . It was not the money...but the face to face meeting with the disgrace they sought to spare their father imo <br /><br />Like Emily going to the Black Bull in order to take Branwell home Only she would be physically strong enough among the sisters and it spared her father from doing so. <br /><br /> Emily could have been there for Patrick's sake as much as Branwell's, if not more . <br /><br />How would it look if Haworth's parson had to publicly gather his drunken son from the Bull himself ? It would make it all even more unbearable.<br /> <br />Patrick tended to Branwell's needs behind the Parsonage's walls . Thanks to his daughters, he was allowed that privacy Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com