Abstract
We meet to-day on the morrow of an anniversary : for on Monday, May 6th, it will be one hundred and fifteen years since Maria Brontë, the eldest and not the least gifted child of a remarkable family, died at Haworth Parsonage—the victim alike of a hereditary· disease and of an unhappy experiment in education. Two months earlier, her illness—described graphically but euphemistically by her father as “a decline”—had taken so serious a turn that her removal from Cowan Bridge School had become necessary. Her sisters, Elizabeth. Charlotte and Emily, were left in Mr. Carus-Wilson's nursery of chosen plants, and it was at Cowan Bridge that they learned the sad tidings from Haworth.
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