Finding Gondal : The Story of the Brontë Family 

I found a great version read by Patricia Routledge. Enthralling from beginning to end :)

Emily Bronte was amazing and her poems are beautiful!. I would highly recommend if you have not already seen it is “To Walk Invisible” It is occasionally on Prime streaming service for free.

I prefer it over Jane Eyre.

She was , without doubt, a genius. Everything about her one and only novel is utterly wonderful, from the groundbreaking structure, to the powerful description and passion. How on earth she conjured this up, leading the short life she lived, never fails to amaze me!

Go ahead and read them, most of these people are so ill informed (particularly that young Indian woman!) one would get the idea they haven’t read the books at all.

It’s a wonderful experience. Walking on moors is also a must.

No disrespect, but the girls' mother WAS named MARIA. However, the English generally do NOT pronounce the name Ma-REEE-ah, as in "I just Met a Girl....", but as if it were SPELLED Mariah (Ma-RIGH-ah), as "They Called the Wind Mariah", from a famous musical about painted conveyances not AT ALL set in Yorkshire. Is this just a French screw-up or should we blame this on a Glasstown-inspired robot?

I'm pretty sure the blue plaque on their earlier house has Maria (daughter), and those people would have checked before having it made On the same plaque also says Partick Branwell, probably how he was baptized, but they just called him Branwell.

Accents?? Which foreign country are you from?

American accents and need getting used to? What a daft comment lol You must be very sheltered.

No, the two older sisters were mentioned at the beginning.

@Josephine Nilsson there seems to be some confusion, because this documentary clearly talks several times about the two older girls who passed away at the boarding school. It also gives the remaining children's order of birth, which puts Charlotte as the eldest of the surviving siblings. And Branwell did pass away first, with Emily surviving him by several months, and then Anne. Charlotte passes last, a few months after marrying her father's assistant. All this is covered in this documentary, but more importantly, is backed up by historical records if one wishes to dive into a fascinating research rabbit hole.

I'm pretty sure they were mentioned, and may I recommend you give it another go. I found it took a little while to get going, but once it did, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Though to be fair, I suspect you are far more knowledgeable than I about the sisters. Most of what I know is from In Our Time Episodes, Michael Stewart's "Walking the Invisible" and TV Drama adaptations - Hopefully I will get round to reading the originals, some day.

Wonderful and soo Tragik in the same time. Aloha from Serbija in Balkan.

If this is the video about a photo found in France with 3 sisters I believe it is the Bronte sisters. ( I watched it earlier today so not going to click on your link.) On the reverse, of the photo it is even written in French "Bronte sisters".

@@everynewdayisablessing8509 Yes, that's the video. It seems very likely to be them, imho.

1834 Big Bend built.

People who knew the Bronte s said that when they were younger, they spoke Irish style English, later Yorkshire?.style as 20th century Received Pronunciation Southern England origin, did not yet exist.

I don't believe for a minute that they had a thick Yorkshire accent, that is a modern day invention. The girls were extensively educated, both at home and abroad. They taught French, for Gs sake!

And nobody that knew them ever mentioned it, and they would have. They always had to be sure and say Charlotte was plain.

@@reginawhitlock4227 However, if current national Received Pronunciation e as invented in early to mid 1900s, earlier called BBC speech,.then what did educated professional,. mid. + large capitalists, + large landowners speak? Educated version of each of 37? (still existing ) local dialects--- sophisticated vocabulary + syntax,.+ local rhythm, stress, intonation ? Or---??

@tymanung6382 We have the novels they wrote, and their correspondence, mostly Charlotte's. In Wuthering Heights, the servant, Joseph, has a pronounced Yorkshire accent. However, Nelly Dean, also a servant, and the main narrator, doesn't. Lockwood notices and mentions it to her. She says she has always been a reader....Believe what you will, but they wrote beautiful prose. Read the last sentence of Wuthering Heights. They didn't talk like hicks.

He rejected her, never even answered her letters.

Aaaah! “Bizarrely poor scholarship…”. Seriously! A very well done documentary giving a wonderful insight into the sisters, their lives and what drove them to bring the characters they did to life, is sniped at about such ridiculous trivia. Please push off to the BBC channel so that others of us enjoy what is on offer without your pedantry. Oh, and I read between four and eight books a week (mostly non-fiction) - exactly to get a broader view of the world, so please don’t even bother with a come back about my not being enough of a reader to understand (or some such baloney). It is always interesting to get some snippets of information such as what was given, but your narrow-minded snobbishness just sours your offering. Hopefully you will use some of your obviously ample available time to explore the broader, deeper aspects of life - as the sisters did and why what they produced was, and still is, so powerful.

The matter of the two older siblings is being mentioned though.

I agree to an extent, but to be fair, it's hard to impress a somewhat Bronte obsessed Haworth 'lad' (now 68 yoa) who regularly walks those moors. Nevertheless, apart from the terrible accents on the opening lines of Wuthering Heights, I quite liked its naivety, namely the 'kids picture book' illustrations etc. Perhaps this was aimed at 8th or 9th graders (what we in the UK call years 9 and 10) to accompany English Literature courses covering the work of the Bronte sisters? Maybe not… The cartoon depictions of the Wuthering Heights story beginning at 22.40 minutes are hilarious - maybe aimed at pre schoolers! What a weird accompaniment to the excellent interviews with academics that are featured throughout. For those who don't know anything about the Bronte's apart from maybe watching one of the many film versions of Wuthering Heights, it was reasonably informative - and I thought the narrator's voice and accent were easy enough to listen to. I think it's fair to say that the chronology, as narrated here, isn't easy to follow. Less than two minutes into the production, the mention of Charlotte as the eldest daughter is confusing - especially as a further two minutes elapses before a brief mention of her two earlier siblings. Also, in the context of life in the early mid 19th century there's no mention of the circumstances surrounding their deaths nor of the direct cause, tuberculosis. It does however mention that TB was the cause of death of Branwell, Emily, Anne and Charlotte. Speaking of Branwell - poor, quote: 'Debauched' Branwell... The narrator sounds a bit too evangelical for my liking. Generally, Branwell gets little or no recognition for his writing nor his painting and this documentary does nothing to redress the imbalance. As mentioned above, the documentary is somewhat rescued by fine interviews with various Bronte experts. In addition there are some lovely clips of the moors surrounding Top Withens. Also featured is Wycoller Hall. Strange inclusion of shots of Whitby Abbey (linked more to Bram Stoker’s Dracula - read it of you haven’t already) but I suppose they reflect the gothic nature of Wuthering Heights. The mention of East Riddlesden Hall in Keighley “Keegly” - is actually pronounced as “Keith-ly.” Minor criticisms of what was a very entertaining documentary. Not often I get to giggle at anything relating to the Bronte’s. Suitable for ages five to 105.

LMAO who do you think you are? Do you really think you know more about the Brontë sisters than professors of English literature of the 19th Century working at Oxford??

Then why don't you make a you presentation and upload it to you tube if you can do better 😂

Branwell died 3 months before Emily.

I beg your pardon, but this documentary is correct...you just failed to hear the beginning clearly.

The documentary was correct you didn't listen. Too busy steaming with your obvious hatred of americans. I have no idea where you come from because chia sanzes is not an English name but don't make sweeping statements about an entire country and listen before you speak.

You got the names wrong though: Maria Brontë, Elizabeth Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë. First to die were Maria, the mother, then Maria and Elizabeth, not sure which order but pretty close, they were 11 and 10. Then many years later Branwell, Emily, Anne and Charlotte while pregnant. The father Patrick died last, poor poor man.