The Story of the Brontë Sisters, Weekly Examiner 1955

What it is

This is a full page from the Huddersfield Weekly Examiner of Saturday, 26 March 1955, titled 'The Story Of The Bronte Sisters'. The page contains portraits of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, photographs of Haworth church, the parsonage, rooms and graves, the Black Bull Hotel, Roe Head and Blake Hall, and article text. The archive holds an image of the page.

Why it matters

The article was written more than a century after Charlotte Bronte's lifetime, so it is a later summary rather than a witness account. It shows that the sisters' story was still being retold in local newspapers in the mid-twentieth century, with pictures of the places where they lived, studied and worked.

Look closer

• Which places does the page choose to show, and what might that suggest about how the family's story was told?
• Why might a 1955 writer have wanted to tell this story, and what might the article have left out?
• How do the portraits, photographs and text work together to shape what a reader believes about the sisters?