We are very proud to announce that this year The Sisters’ Room is collaborating with the Brontë Parsonage Museum. On the last Friday of each month we will publish special contents curated by the experts of the museum. Let’s have a look at what’s inside the closets, drawers and cupboards at the Parsonage. You will find in this new category some of the objects that belonged to the Brontë family and which are kept in the Brontë Parsonage Museum archives. Enjoy this new adventure!
5 April 1849
This is the last of Anne’s known letters, written about five weeks before her death to Charlotte’s best friend Ellen Nussey. The letter is typical of Anne: despite her own fatal illness, her thoughts are for others…
“…if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect, in the hope that you, dear Miss Nussey, would give as much of your company as you possibly could to Charlotte and be a sister to her in my stead. But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa’s and Charlotte’s sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it…”
The Brontë Parsonage Museum
Such s touching sentiment. Her father taught her well