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                                     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. Jus...