Part 4 of a lovely tho dated 4 part historical drama from YTV about the Brontes of Haworth. First aired back in the 70s. With All rights, content & licences are owned by & belong to YORKSHIRE TELEVISION STUDIOS.
They were so young! We still have their books as a legacy to their greatness. I studied Jane Eyre in English Literature at school. Its been a favourite of mine ever since
An excellent adaptation. So much of the dialogue is verbatim, acted with character and truth. And so wonderful, to be filmed in the actual parsonage. It is only "dated" in the sense that they were far more skilled at historical adaptations then, than now. Being the youngest by far, in the family, I'd often stay up and watch quality drama, discussion, culture and art programmes, far beyond my years. The BBC in the late 60s and 70s was like a university and the best entertainments venue going. I was so lucky. If you see anything posted online from that era, try it. You'll have a treat!!
Thank you, Dale, for posting this series that I missed at the time I lived in the UK. Scrolling through the appreciative comments, I'm impressed that they all recognize this as a quality production that could never be made today. The acting was superb. It represented a Golden Age of British television that we are un likely ever to see again.
The very best adaptation I’ve seen of the Bronte Family. Impressive. This authentic series would not be made today - they would be overly dressed, made up, frivolous dialogue added etc. I’m so happy this has been posted. Thank you.
You might like the movie To Walk Invisible: The Lives of the Bronte Sisters (2016). It does not cover the whole lifetime of the siblings, just a part of it, but it is done believably and realistically imo
My dear friend Ben Whitrow (Arthur Bell- Nicholls) was in the last couple of episodes. He passed away in 2017 and I love watching his older work. Lost count the times I've visited Haworth and visited the Bronte house. These sisters were the real Girl Power...way ahead of their time. This was the tv series that got me hooked. Than you for posting.
I've read all there is to read about the Bronte family, discussed in great length the works with a professor of romantic literature and spent time traipsing the moors around Haworth, but this series brought them to me in a way that showed the love, strength and humanity of them all. I've enjoyed this series very much, thank you.
Its like these woman were divine and given gifts thats surpassed there human experience to bring forth such literary compression, but they did, procure literary genius. Its so humbling and profound. Nothing that has not been said but this rendition in movie form is very moving.
Thank you so much. They just don't make dramas like this anymore. I felt I was there in the Howarth parsonage with the Brontes - a real treat this afternoon.
This show is so well done! I actually felt like crying due to the sadness and loss of the Bronte sisters. How did Charlotte manage without them? They were more than just family, they were best friends.
It managed to communicate, through the excellent acting of each of the main characters, just how feelings and consideration and love was uppermost in their minds- looking out for each other. Heart-warming and wonderful to watch. many thanks.
.....ive watched this virsion perhaps 3 times. It never fails to make me cry. What effected me most this time around? The love of a father. And how his faith carried through the deaths of wife and 🙏6 children😭
Thoroughly delighting in this charming historic documentary of the Brontes. It's past 3:00 a.m., and I'm now watching Part 4. Made a fire and drinking a cup of coffee, contemplating, just for a moment, what "if" all the Bronte children had lived, including the two older sisters that died earlier? What "if" all that genius was unleashed upon the literary world, until all six children had died of old age? Imagine the library shelves stocked with the genius of Maria Bronte, Elizabeth Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Patrick Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Anne Bronte? It's too much for the mind to conceive. In contrast, imagine if we were blessed with just one Bronte living to old age with ink pen flowing on paper untouched by poverty or disease? The world gained so much from the Bronte's in just the little time they were here. The Victorian age was a cruel period with poverty and disease that chose it's victims indiscriminately. The poor and disadvantaged suffered all the more so due to a number of factors, one being forced to live in unsanitary conditions.
How I missed your comment before I don't know, you really took me with you on the what if fantasy trip WOW! thank you so very much for your truly wonderful and immersive little piece of writing x
"Well said" seems a little trite; but, thank you for your imaginings--the 'what ifs' of further publications and their possible review in old age of their published works. Yet, still I wonder, What social position would any other writer (male or female) have found at the time, compared to the literary works of Charlotte, Emily and Ann Bronte?' The context and success of the sister[s] in the Victorian age seem to underline the significance of "others" who were bypassed during the terrible conditions of that period. Now I'm wondering, how were the 'poor and disadvantaged felt/understood by the Brontes, and how did the sisters perceive the conditions of 'those other women' who lived in the Victorian age? Did they fully comprehend the kinds of places, streets and situations of the poor--as portrayed in their fictive narratives?
I think their sufferings on poverty, loss, sadness and unforgiving harsh environment of bitter coldness, snow and relentless lashing of howling wind make helped to make those literary master pieces. If everything went well and every one was happy of that family they wouldn't have had those deep feelings to write the classic novels and beautiful poetry.
That was so wonderfully written { coyotedust } l was in Brontë country in 1968 l visited the house were the Brontë sisters grew up . I am 75 now and live in America . Oh if only they had lived to be as elderly as me , what amazing books they would have written .
Many thanks for uploading this historical drama to watch. This series is the best of Brontes and accurate portrayal of this literary family . Anne Bronte never showed the affection to Willie Weightman openly, however his passing broke her heart. Anne wrote this poem upon his passing... “Yes, thou art gone! and never more Thy sunny smile shall gladden me; But I may pass the old church door, And pace the floor that covers thee, May stand upon the cold, damp stone, And think that, frozen, lies below The lightest heart that I have known, The kindest I shall ever know. Yet, though I cannot see thee more, ‘Tis still a comfort to have seen; And though thy transient life is o’er, ‘Tis sweet to think that thou hast been; To think a soul so near divine, Within a form, so angel fair, United to a heart like thine, Has gladdened once our humble sphere.”
I have just binge watched the whole 4 episodes the brontes are my favourite authors and I love the bronte museum and Haworth that was very well put across and I enjoyed watching this thank you
Mrs H ...Howarth is a lovely place to visit but it has a sad history ... I visited the Bronte family home and found it a beautiful place....They father out lived all his children ..Branwell being the only boy died at around 33yrs old through drug and alcohol abuse....I visited Anne's grave in Scarborough North Yorkshire...She use to stay in a lodge that was there before The Grand Hotel was built ..It's there her writings came to life... I bet the family didn't realise that in 2023 that they'd be remembered..!
Can never get enough of the extraordinary Brontes. I loved watching this in 2020. I had seen it on TV with my mother when it was first out. We both shared a love of this amazing story. 💓💓👏
This has NOT dated - a magnificent production - much wonderful acting, great performance by Lynch and a breathtaking one by Kitchen. THANK YOU MR DALE ! This has inspired me to go back once more to the novels and poems of these wonderful genius women who were all utterly, eternally, unique
They showed such strength in melancholy that every time I teach their works I can't help being sombre .Actually their short span of life time ,including the brother , pines us.We heave a sigh and say 'What a waste.'..
I often wonder why Anne was buried in Scarborough even tho she died there, I've visited Haworth many many times and always feel sad when in the church where reverend bronte worked as that is where the whole family are buried, in a vault underneath the church, yet not the youngest and most frail Anne xx
@@DaleJoyce There is a very good video on RU-vid. Anne Bronte the Final Journey. Anne was taken to Scarborough in the hope the sea air would be good for her health. She was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Scarborough. It was to save Papa the heartache of having to bury another child...
Terrible scourge of T.B or consumption as it was called then. My neighbour had a son with consumption, he was put in a shed in the garden, it was done out very nicely but he died there, they knew at the time it was transferrable to others.
Old Patrick Brontë buried his wife and all 6 of his children, but never turned his back on his god or his religion. Austere and stoical to the end. I think he must have been an oddity.
The sad contrast between the childhood of the Bronte siblings - their bright optimism for their future lives to the adulthood that brought them all struggles, sadness & early death. Thank you for bringing to us this gem.
While Patrick Bronte was a bit selfish toward Charlotte's marriage he probably just didn't want to lose his last living child to complications of pregnancy. Charlotte was already known to be weak at the time and she was older. Childbirth was still a crapshoot at that time with high chances of something going wrong.
Just finished watching this. It was so good! I did not know much about them. I do know their books but not their personal lives. Thank you for letting me enjoy this film.
Brilliant series - so believable and faithful to the actual life story written by Gaskell and personal notes and letters. It struck me as such a realistic portrait of the times. Visited Haworth some time ago and it was so unchanged in the 180 years since the Brontes lived there.
Excellent portrayal of the iconic Bronte family and the legacies they gave to the literary world. It was very informative as I was not familiar with the back stories of the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. The 2017 2-part Masterpiece series To Walk Invisible was my first introduction to the life and genius of the Brontes. It is also and excellent portrayal, albeit, in much less detail.
There were six children who all died. Marie and Elisabeth died only ten and eleven years old after them died Patrick's wife Maria, then Emily, Bramwell, Ann and Charlotte. Patrick and Maria Bronte had six children.
people were unaware of germs and how they spread, which made it so easy for TB and other diseases. Haworth was particularly bad, most citizens died very young. A tragedy that these talented women lived just there. Imagine what books they might have written if they had lived longer.
I don't have a physical DVD, the programs are stored on my Amazon account. It seems to me it does not have the scene where Charlotte finds Mr. Nicholls sobbing at the gate, which this upload does. It's an important scene! I was glad to see it.
Julie LL, the gate scene starts at 1:08.19 in this posted video. I remember when I saw the Amazon stream thinking, how could they leave out the gate scene where she find him " sobbing as women never do " that is, howling . I'm glad to finally see it!
So anguishing to see Emily suffer so. Not being able to breathe is the worst suffering of all. In the Victorian period they didn't regulate pain medicine. Laudanum could be purchased over the counter. I remember, reading that Emily refused to see a doctor until her last day, and then the doctor didn't make it.
Poor old dear, losing his wife and all of his children, and the heartache his son put him through. Charlotte gave him a son-in-law, though, who seems to have been a good man, and I hope Arthur Nichols was good to Patrick in his old age.
What a beautiful but tragic story. It was so hard back then, no career or job steady, you would/could starve to death. Nothing in place to help the poor anywhere back then. So much fear & sickness, misery & death. The cold always the cold coming. I know why I was born now, I don't do well in the cold. When old we lose our fatty layers throughout our bodies so our hearts can live longer, if our hearts needed to keep feeding the fat, when/if this happens we can't/don't live as long as medium size folks. The skinny folks can die just as fast only from no body volume, to fight infection or the cold or hot either one. I don't want to reincarnate again, here I can move to subtle world next, 3rd heaven, Satva, Goodness, I always work out of goodness & don't need the sinning process any more, thank you so much my teacher Parahamsa Yogananda my teacher/master. love you master & thank you for the parking lot at Western Dental, I will never forget. xoxoxo
I've just read that Charlotte and Arthur were only married for nine months, how sad is that! The longest surviving member of the family was the father who lived to the ripe old age of 84
I really see Patrick Bronte as a truly heroic person. When taking into account his impoverished origins, what he himself achieved despite this and then had to endure with the loss of his wife when the children were still very young, the eye operation without anaesthetic and finally, the deaths of all of his children. Talk about stoicism! It was both the courage of the moment, when an imminent danger is faced, and also the courage of endurance and real fortitude over long years of struggle. He was a very impressive character.
Poor Bramwell. Why is it after all these years that people have still not learned that if you are depressed, alcohol and illicit drugs will not make you feel better?
I’m astonished l didn’t recognize Michael Kitchen until the last credit in part 4. I kept wondering when he would appear. Once known, of course it’s clear…! A very sad sad story. Their sorrows were classic 19th-century melancholic, not surprising given the age, life expectancy, class structure, with the status of women so essentially low. As to Patrick Brontë’s fear of losing Charlotte in childbirth - my judgment goes against him: did he like ANY curate? He learned to find affection for his son-in-law, though. So, how to read these spiritual ancestors of ours? In hard, exacting times, they favored constancy, resignation, endurance and other values less applicable to our current zeitgeist, perhaps. Well, it’s a sad, sad tale…but a tale well-told. Thank you.
I like the thoroughness of this series in showing the lives (and untimely deaths) of the Brontes, even though it's a bit stilted by modern standards. Patrick Bronte must have felt awful at outliving all his children.
The reason why Rev. Nicholls wondered if Miss Nussey would be at the wedding was she and Charlotte had a falling out over him that broke off the friendship in July of 1853. Miss Wooler was the peace maker and they patched it up in Feb '54 . But Mr. Nicholls was not spoken of between them until the April 11th '54 letter shown in the film where CB tells Ellen she is engaged.
Quite a few comments mention that this type of series couldn't be made today by the Beeb but, in fairness, I think that, on the whole, modern audiences don't have the taste for this style of programme-making and there is a demand for more fast-paced material. It's possibly a result of technology and the need for touch-button speed and gratification which has translated into our cultural life as well. It's a shame though, as I think the pace of this series is much more in keeping with the subject matter and gives more insight into the lives of the people involved than something which is heavily edited, with a lot of quick-fire, modernised dialogue and constant 'incidental' music dictating the audience reactions to each scene in a drama. There needs to be room for both styles I think, but it's not realistic if the BBC isn't confident of an audience for it.
Patrick Bronte was in right Charlotte should not kept on meeting with Nichols either she shouldn't marry him. She died in propblems in her early pregnancy. Patrick was scared of loosing his last child after he had to bury his wife and five his children one after another: Marie, Elisabeth, Emily, Bramwell and Ann.. Such a sad story. Patrick Bronte though he himself bornt in powerty in Ireland he worked his way up and he was a well educated man,. In his youth he had his dream to be a author but then he end up to be a parson. I wonder. Were there ever found any writtings of Patrick Bronte himself? Those could be a great to read..
They now know that church yards, graves contaminated the water and spread TB. The eldest daughters, Maria n Elizabeth, also died of TB while attending a parish school, while the graveyard was on the hill. However, if it wasn't TB, alcohol or laudeman wld have killed Branwell. What a talented family! Has there been one since, espec. writer- wise? THERE IS MUCH RELIEF ON DEATH.
It wasn’t the water to the Parsonage as they had there own well, it would have been TB. Cows milk the days before pasteurisation, the village had the contaminated water from the graves😱 and died young , MR BRONTË. Worked to get that stopped and the toilet closets the village used. Improved, it was a very unhealthy place to live, 👹
Well, it wouldn't have done her any good to see a doctor . They did more harm than good in those days, most of them. It's a miracle Patrick's eye operation went so well. Anne saw doctors, took medicine, I think mostly to satisfy Charlotte. Emily didn't want to die. She was writing another book, and I would like to know what happened to it.
She should never have married him. Being with child killed her, she was too weak. All were weak, and drinking the water passing by the graveyard did not help as it was public knowledge the decomposing bodies entered the water system contaminating the water. Their father had tried for years to get the local councils to listen ( things never change)
Yes, but how much longer would she have lived if she hadn't married Arthur? All five of her siblings had died young. She was small and delicate, prone to depression. All her life she had dreamed of love. And it wasn't that she would just marry anyone. The girl had turned down four marriage proposals. He truly loved her. She wasn't madly in love with him when she married him, but did grow to love him more every.day. He made her happy. They only had nine months, then she was gone. This was a love story, too.❤
I agree, but I think it was a risk she was prepared to take. Charlotte wanted to experience marriage, could see that Arthur was desperately in love with her and didn’t want to end up alone after her father passed. After her siblings died she was very lonely and had been rejected by Monsieur Heger and her Editor George Smith and wanted a chance at happiness.
Lyn Durden-- Thanks. It must have been edited differently at one time since it is listed by Amazon as 5 parts: www.amazon.com/Brontes-Haworth-Season-1/dp/B007TGZ6QQ
