Analysis Of The Poem Second Child And Maria Branswell ...

Biographical Summary One April 21, 1816 Patrick Bronte’s third child and Maria Branswell’s sixth child was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in England. Shortly after her birth, the Bronte-Branswell family moved to another part of Yorkshire known as Haworth so her father had been given the opportunity of being perpetual curate to the S., Michael and All Angels Church. However while in Haworth, a deep tragedy stroke the family on September 15, 1821 when their loving mother had died of cancer. The family wasn’t fully abandoned for the sister of Maria, Elizabeth Branwell, had greatly helped Patrick on raising his five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. Along with their only son Patrick Branwell. Thinking his daughters would have a better education and life there, Patrick Bronte sent his daughters Charlotte, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth to a boarding school in Cowan Bridge known as the Clergy Daughters’ School. There the girls were very sad to be away from home and the school didn’t prove the best living spaces for their students. For the school had greatly impacted the health of all his daughters. Especially the health of Maria and Elizabeth that gotten tuberculosis the summer of 1825 and passed away. Soon after the death of his two daughters, Patrick decided to bring his remaining daughters, Charlotte and Emily, back home. There Charlotte and her siblings were home schooled so they were isolated from the world and only had themselve to