Talk by Sharon Wright

Before Cathy met Heathcliff, before Jane Eyre met Mr Rochester, Maria Branwell met Mr Brontë. They married and their real Regency love story rivals any Brontë novel.

Maria gave us Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, the most gifted literary siblings the world has ever known. She then vanished from history for 200 years. So who was the missing mother of genius?

Sharon shares her quest across the West Country to unearth Maria’s remarkable, untold life story which she has published in her bestselling biography, Mother of the Brontës.

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