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The sixth of May and fifteenth of June are difficult days for lovers of the Brontë family, as it was on these dates 193 years ago that the eldest siblings Maria Brontë and Elizabeth Brontë died of consumption, what we now know as tuberculosis. Their loss was dreadful to their family, and can still be felt by us today.
Maria and Elizabeth are remembered on Haworth’s Bronte memorial
The sixth of May and fifteenth of June are difficult days for lovers of the Brontë family, as it was on these dates 193 years ago that the eldest siblings Maria Brontë and Elizabeth Brontë died of consumption, what we now know as tuberculosis. Their loss was dreadful to their family, and can still be felt by us today.
Read more on this blog about the Clergy Daughter’s School in Cowan Bridge: annebronte/in-memoriam-maria-bronte-and-elizabeth-bronte
Dorothea Beale
Interesting for me is this part. Because I didn't know it. In 1857, Wilson appointed a new head at Casterton, Dorothea Beale. She was a very different person to Wilson, and later became known as a suffragist and social reformer. Beale was horrified at what she found at the school, and resigned a year later. She complained about ‘the low moral tone of the school’, and ‘the want of sympathy and love’, as ‘nothing can flourish if love be not the ruling incentive.’
wiki/Dorothea_Beale: At the end of 1856, she left Queen's College owing to dissatisfaction with its administration, and in January 1857 became head teacher of the Clergy Daughters' School, Casterton, Westmorland (founded in 1823 by Carus Wilson at Cowan Bridge). At Casterton, Miss Beale's insistence on the need of reforms led to her resignation in December following; many changes in the management of the school were made next year. In 1858, Miss Beale established a scholarship from Casterton School to Cheltenham