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Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaPatrick Bronte is a legendary name in literature, the father of the Bronte sisters.Bronte is a name as English as the stones of Yorkshire. Except it isn’t — it’s an assumed name. Patrick Bronte was born poor, Irish, and…12h ago512h ago5
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThe Bronte children were “scribblemaniacs”.“Scribblemania” was first coined by poet Samuel Coleridge. It’s the compulsion to write and draw. Charlotte claimed it as the Bronte’s…5d ago25d ago2
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaWe may never know the truth about Branwell Bronte.Branwell was educated at home. Much care was given and much was expected. At first, he thrived. His juvenile imaginary work was prodigious…6d ago46d ago4
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThe role sexism played in the lives of the Bronte sisters.The Bronte family was functionally a matriarchy. Run by the sisters and their aunt Elizabeth. But in the wider world, women were expected…Jul 314Jul 314
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThe Bronte sisters gave the world enduring literature while living the most fleeting, fragile…The Bronte legend is of wild genius dying young. Death stalked this family. But there was a clear reason — they lived in a blighted…Jul 305Jul 305
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaThis is a painting of the three Bronte sisters and a ghost.Painted by their brother Branwell, it shows them clustered around a pillar. However, the pillar is slowly fading and his image is emerging.Jul 302Jul 302
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaCharlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Bronte created complex fantasy worlds as children.Much of the Bronte’s childhood was spent creating fantasy worlds filled with detailed history and characters. In their intrigues and…Jul 272Jul 272
Lyle HedleyinThe Daily CuppaRutgers tomato is the classic taste of Campbell’s tomato soup, born in the lab, lost, and now…The Rutgers tomato was always a story of agricultural science. It was hybridized by Campbell’s to make soup. Today, it has been revived…Jul 256Jul 256