The Brontes

Rev Nicholls was Patrick Brontes Curate, that's why he was part of their lives and how Charlotte came to marry him.

baubles I'm sure you'll find The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a good read. It must have been very shocking at the time with it's graphic description of life with an alcoholic husband.Not the sort of thing that was discussed in polite society!

I've just caught up with this. I agree about the sound, I needed subtitles, too. Otherwise I enjoyed it. Branwell featured so much because it was about his effect upon their lives, over just a few years, it wasn't a re-telling of the entire Bronte story.

How interesting about the sets being built on the moors! We've been to Haworth a number of times and I had wondered if the trees that are round the parsonage today had been photoshopped out. Also, the village street looked narrower than in real life, though as we all know, the camera can lie.

I watched last night and thoroghly enjoyed it. I know the area, love the bleakness in winter and the moors are wild all year round. I'd no problem with the sound quality, liked the sets and thought the cast were all excellent.
I also appreciated the way Bramwells addictions and excesses affected not only him but the whole family. He's often romanticised whereas this dramatisation reflected the harsh truths of alcohol abuse and dependence.
Sally Wainwright is a brilliant writer.
An earlier poster disliked the final scenes in the Bronte museum at Howarth. I liked the contrast and rather than spinning in their graves, I suspect the sisters would have been proud that their work continues to bring pleasure. I'm planning to read and visit Howarh again soon

I finished watching it on iPlayer and really enjoyed it. I'm glad I gave it another chance.

Very well acted and scripted

Agree with your post Iam64 and think the Bronte sisters would have been very proud indeed, that their books and their house were practiaclly a place of pilgrimage.

It makes you wonder how many other women leading such closeted lives in those days had as much to offer. If it hadn't been for Charlotte's initiative to really try and find a publisher nothing would have happened. Thank goodness she was so determined but what a lot we may have missed.

By the way does anyone remember the series about the Brontes that was on in the early 70s (I think) A very new Michael Kitchen was Bramwell and even then was excepionally good.

I really enjoyed it, didn't know that much about them before. So sad for the father to outlive all his 6? children. It has made me want to know more, there was a link at and to more clips and information. Also l have never read the tenant of wildfell Hall, will now do so.