Charlotte, Anne & Emily Bronte - Walking in the footsteps of the Bronte ...

Charlotte Brontë’s Roe Head Letter Of October 1836.

This was the classroom where Charlotte Bronte taught

One period that Charlotte Brontë found particularly trying in her life was her time as a teacher at Roe Head school in the hills above Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire (that’s a drawing of it, by Anne Brontë at the head of this post). Charlotte had attended the school as a pupil from 1831 until 1832; it was a very happy time for her, and she made lifelong friends in Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor. In 1835 Charlotte returned to Roe Head in the role of teacher, but she found this to be a very different experience. Read more: anebronte.org/2022/charlotte-brontes-roe-head-letter-of-october-1836/n