The Bronte Sisters Biography

Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Bronte were born in West Yorkshire. After the death of their mother and siblings, they grew up in relative seclusion as preacher's daughters. Highly imaginative romantics, the women wrote novels and poetry to stave off boredom. Because women were not allowed to publish in the 1850s, the three sisters wrote under the male pen names Ellis, Currer and Acton Bell.