Branwell Brontë 'The Afghan War'
Poem published 7th May 1842 in the 'Leeds Intelligencer' Lucasta Miller referred to Mrs Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bront ë and the shaping of the Bront ë s's reputation in the following terms : " The legend it laid down-three lonely sisters playing out their tragic destiny on top of a windswept moor with a mad misanthrope father and doomed brother". MILLER Whilst in the guide to The Bront ë s, 'The Brontethaurus', John Sutherland stated "My brilliant boy', Patrick (Bront ë ) called his only son Branwell. Brilliant, but doomed. Before terminally incapacitated by drink, drugs, self pity, and sexual incontinence". SUTHERLAND Of course the overall Bront ë 'legend' is open to a challenge. Just read Anne Bront ë 's Tenant of Wildfell Hall and its sophisticated but quite radical view of Christianity. Or Charlotte Bront ë 's Villette with so man