![]() ![]() As Charlotte said later after his death, “We could not tell him of our efforts for fear of causing him too deep a pang of remorse for his own time misspent and talents misapplied. The sisters preferred not to tell their brother about the success of Jane Eyre. Later of course, it won its rightful place in literary history. Emily’s Wuthering Heights got some critical acclaim but overall, it was considered a far-fetched, weird sort of story when it was first published. He wrote and painted but couldn’t hold down a job. Branwell, like his sisters, was raised to be talented, but he had a hard time of it. They were sympathetic but couldn’t understand why he was living the life of a wastrel.Ĭharlott, who published Jane Eyre under a pseudonym, met with great success. One of these was Daphne Du Maurier’s The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, in which Gaskell’s fables of the Byronic Branwell were given a lush treatment. The sisters were tiring of him, though they did bail him out at several points. ![]() In his late twenties, a slow resignation started to creep into his poems. Not that the young man was not trying but there was no reassurance that was coming forth from the literary world. ![]() He was 23 and nothing was working for him still. ![]() Several publishers rejected his work and slowly disappointment started to set in. Wordsworth to whom he sent a selection of his poems for his opinion gave him no reply. After that, there were a series of disappointments. Branwell was rejected at a premium painting school that came as a shock. ![]()
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