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The Bronte sisters were a nineteenth-century literary family born in Thornton, Yorkshire, but living most of their lives in nearby Haworth.
The three sisters are each renowned and revered as authors, poets and pioneers in literature from the female perspective.
Charlotte, born in Thornton near Bradford, on 21 April 1816, was a poet and novelist and is the author of Jane Eyre, her best known work, and three other novels. She died on 31 March 1855 just before reaching the age of 39.
Emily Jane, born in Thornton, 30 July 1818, was a poet and novelist. She died in Haworth on 19 December 1848 at the age of 30. Wuthering Heights was her most famous work.
Anne was born 17 January 1820 died on 28 May 1849.
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Thornton, Haworth