Birthplace of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, Thornton · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Birthplace of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, Thornton
Subject: Brontë family; fictional works; Architecture, Domestic, in literature; Architecture in literature; Birthplace; Birthplaces in literature; Birthplaces; Women authors; Women authors, English; Photogravure; Restaurants; Butcher shops; Row houses; Museums
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Yorkshire; Europe; England; United Kingdom; Britain
Description: Here we see an image of the ruins of the house where Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Bronte were born to Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell. The house is a small townhouse in the town of Thornton in West Yorkshire. The family lived here until 1820 when they moved to Haworth. The house has been used for several purposes including as a butcher shop and a restaurant. In the 1990s it was converted into a museum that closed in 2007 and it returned to a coffee shop. This image is a reproduction of a photograph using a technique called photogravure, where photographs are taken on plates which could then be etched on to create a plate for use in a printing press.
Image Creator: R. W. Bland (artist); C. Barrow Keene (artist)
Type: StillImage; Photogravure
Identifier: mta:24894
Language: eng
Source Name: Wuthering Heights
Parent Collection: "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë. Illus. by Branwell Brontë & Emily Brontë, photogravures by R.W. Bland & C.B. Keene (1899)
Image: mta_24894_OBJ.png