eighteen-forty-eight

Updated: May 19, 2025

It took him more than three years, from July, eighteen-forty-five, the date of his dismissal, to September, eighteen-forty-eight, the date of his death. The Incumbent of Haworth has been much blamed for his son's shortcomings. He has been charged with first spoiling the boy, and then neglecting him. When London and the Royal Academy proved beyond him he had him taught at Bradford.

May Sinclair - The Three Brontës