First stop of The North Trip: Haworth Parsonage, home of the Bronte sisters: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne (as well as their brother and father). Having just reread Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) for my literature class I'm taking, I felt like I had a lot more appreciation for this stop. All three sisters, as well as their brother (not even including the other three siblings that died before reaching adulthood) died within a few years of each other, in their early thirties. Their father outlived not only his wife, but
all of his seven children! How sad! They lived in a Parsonage, so they were in a house next to a church and a graveyard. I thought that the graveyard was pretty cool, which accounts for the many pictures:
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