Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 General Introduction Historical Background: The four Brontes lived and died in the first part of the nineteenth century. They were born in the years just after the Napoleonic wars - Charlotte the year after Waterloo (1815), the victory of her hero, the Duke of Wellington. Branwell, Emily, and Anne saw the first dozen years of Queen Victoria's long reign (1837 - 1901). Only Charlotte lived to see the mid-century mark and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (the ancestor of our World's Fair), which celebrated half a century of progress. These were years of swift and kaleidoscop...
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