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Mary Shelley's The Last Man was set in the future ending in the year 2100, "the last year of the world." A devastating worldwide plague has annihilated all of humanity except for one man, Lionel Verney, who chronicles the world’s demise.

Shelley’s apocalyptic novel, originally published in 1826, was rejected in its time, being out of print for over 100 years from 1833 until 1965.

All four Brontë siblings evidently read at least part I of Shelley’s novel, showing rewriting of this text in their juvenilia. 

Anne Bronte lived here at Throp Green

as governess for 5 years... she left when her brother Branwell - working there as tutor - had an affair with mistress of the house Mrs Lydia Robinson...

”during my stay I have had some very

unpleasant and undreamt-of

experiences of human nature“ wrote

Anne of Throp Green.

Why is Emily the 'odd' one, the

'weird one'

My academic research shows without conjecture she was the most normal in adhering to expected social for a 19th century woman she read, she partook in an international reading & writing narrative, the perfect daughter she kept house at the parsonage (the centre of life for over 500 people in Haworth at the death of her aunt as all respectable Victorian women should,

- whilst

her older sister retuned to Brussels to pursue the hope an affair with a married man..

Saw this on Pinterest and was intrigued....

I've added picture of Charlotte's wedding bonnet as on display at Brontë parsonage museum...

The picture on the left is a close up of one figure from a picture of three women commonly thought to be of the Brontë sisters....

Charlatte Bronte married her father's curate Arthur Bell Nichols in June 1854. She was 38 & he 35. She died 9 months. later of severe morning sickness.

Do you think of palaces and elegant city parks when you think of the Brontës? A thousand miles from the moors, this was Charlotte and Emily's home for a year...

Take a city break to walk to steps the sisters trod, see the sights where the Pensionnat Heger once stood, and see the sisters in a different light....