Charlotte BrontĂ«âs father, Patrick BrontĂ«, was an Anglican clergyman. He moved his family to Haworth amid the Yorkshire moors in 1820. When they werenât away at school, the BrontĂ« children learned and played there, writing and telling romantic tales for one another and inventing imaginative games played out at home or on the desolate moors. From 1824 to 1825 Charlotte attended Clergy Daughtersâ School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Charlotte was one of six children. Her elder sisters Maria and Elizabeth died when they were children, and their mother, Maria Branwell BrontĂ«, died in 1821.
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