Though from vastly different backgrounds, within three months Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell were married on 29 December 1812.

All three Brontë sisters worked as governesses or teachers, and all experienced problems controlling their charges, gaining support from their employers, and coping with homesickness — but Anne was the only one who persevered and made a success of her work.

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

The manuscript was only partially completed when the Brontë household suffered a tragic turn of events, experiencing the deaths of three family members within eight months.

Following the release of Devotion, a Hollywood biography of the Brontë sisters filmed in 1943 but withheld from release during the suspension and litigation, de Havilland signed a three picture deal with Paramount Pictures.

Her subsequent feature films included three with director André Téchiné: French Provincial ( Souvenirs en France, 1975 ); The Bronte Sisters ( Les Sœurs Brontë, 1979 ), in which she portrayed Charlotte ; and Barocco ( 1976 ), for which she won a second César for her performance alongside Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu.

While Brontë was writing Shirley, three of her siblings died.

Branwell Brontë painted himself out of this painting of his three sisters.

His daughter Joanna Hutton ( died 2002 ) became the first female curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, for a period in the 1960s-coincidentally just three miles away from the town of Keighley, where Arthur Brough's Are you being served co-star, Mollie Sugden was born.

The first, Coldwater, which was one of The Washington Post's Books of the Year and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book ( SE Asia and Pacific Region ) transplants the Brontë sisters to a penal colony off the New South Wales Coast, using the plight of the three to explore different approaches to art, life and love.

William Thackeray's ( 1811-1863 ) most famous work Vanity Fair appeared in 1848, and the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte ( 1816-55 ), Emily ( 1818-48 ) and Anne ( 1820-49 ), also published significant works in the 1840s.

her father, H. T. Simpson, Greenville, S.C., and three sisters, Mrs. W. E. Little and Mrs. Hal B. Wansley, both of Atlanta, and Mrs. Bill Wallace, Wilmington, N.C..

three sisters, Mrs. Eugene Horstman, Los Angeles, Mrs. Lucy Brett Andrew, New York City, and Mrs. Beatrice Kiefferm, New York City, and five grandchildren.

Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.

" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

She had three elder brothers, Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and the future Emperor Caligula, and two younger sisters, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

During the reign of Caligula, coins like the one pictured here were issued depicting his three sisters, Drusilla, Livilla and Agrippina the Younger.

In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria, and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire.

Branwell painted himself out of the painting of his three sisters.

The reverse shows Caligula's three sisters, Agrippina, Drusilla and Julia Livilla, with whom Caligula was rumoured to have carried on incestuous relationships.

Graves's Caligula commits incest with all three of his sisters and is implied to have murdered Drusilla.

His mother, surnamed Dan, died early in Deng's life, leaving Deng, his three brothers and three sisters.

After the death of their mother in 1821, when Emily was three years old, the older sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were sent to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge, where they encountered abuse and privations later described by Charlotte in Jane Eyre.

The three remaining sisters and their brother Patrick Branwell were thereafter educated at home by their father and aunt Elizabeth Branwell, their mother's sister.

The first three were his nieces, daughters of his half brother Senka ; two others were sisters, daughters of the Omi Soga no Iname

Goddesses or demi-goddesses appear in sets of three in a number of ancient European pagan mythologies ; these include the Greek Erinyes ( Furies ) and Moirai ( Fates ); the Norse Norns ; Brighid and her two sisters, also called Brighid, from Irish or Keltoi mythology.

Hera (; Greek, Hēra, equivalently, Hērē, in Ionic and Homer ) was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion.

Humphrey was the oldest of three children ; he had two younger sisters, Frances and Catherine Elizabeth ( Kay ).

Despite the act of incest being unacceptable within the Roman Empire, Roman Emperor Caligula is rumored to have had sexual relationships with all three of his sisters ( Julia Livilla, Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger ).

All three Polgár sisters competed.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Facsimile of the first page of Macbeth from the First Folio, published in 1623Scholars also cite an entertainment seen by King James at Oxford in the summer of 1605 that featured three " sibyls " like the weird sisters ; Kermode surmises that Shakespeare could have heard about this and alluded to it with the weird sisters.

The Triassic was named in 1834 by Friedrich Von Alberti, after the three distinct rock layers ( tri meaning " three ") that are found throughout Germany and northwestern Europe — red beds, capped by chalk, followed by black shales — called the ' Trias.

When three Japanese fishermen, among them Otokichi, were shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula in 1834, McLoughlin, envisioning an opportunity to use them to open trade with Japan, sent the trio to London on the Eagle to try to convince the Crown of his plan.

The abolition of slavery occurred on 1 August 1834, and to this day it is celebrated by a three day public holiday on the first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in August in the British Virgin Islands.

Giuseppe had three brothers and six sisters: Giuseppe Sarto, 1834 ( died after six days ); Angelo Sarto, 1837 – 1916 ; Teresa Parolin-Sarto, 1839 – 1920 ; Rosa Sarto, 1841 – 1913 ; Antonia Dei Bei-Sarto, 1843 – 1917 ; Maria Sarto, 1846 – 1930 ; Lucia Boschin-Sarto, 1848 – 1924 ; Anna Sarto, 1850 – 1926 ; Pietro Sarto, 1852 ( died after six months ).

In 1834, Algeria became a French military colony and, in 1848, was declared by the constitution of 1848 to be an integral part of French territory and divided into three French departments ( Algiers, Oran and Constantine ).

It was successfully incorporated as a town in 1834, following a failed attempt three years earlier.

Loewe wrote five operas, of which only one, Die drei Wünsche, was performed at Berlin in 1834, without much success ; seventeen oratorios, many of them for male voices unaccompanied, or with short instrumental interludes only ; choral ballads, cantatas, three string quartets ( his opus 24 ), and a pianoforte trio ; a work for clarinet and piano, published posthumously ; and some piano solos.

In 1834 these writings, together with the essay entitled Nouvelles considérations sur les rapports du physique et du moral de l ' homme, were published by Victor Cousin, who in 1841 added three volumes, under the title Œuvres philosophiques de Maine de Biran.

To exert greater control of the lands and people of Muang Phuan, the Siamese launched three separate campaigns ( 1777 – 79, 1834 – 36 and 1875 / 76 ) to resettle large parts of the Phuan population to the south in regions under firm Siamese control.

The British three halfpence was a silver coin worth 1½d or 1 / 160th of a pound produced for circulation in the British colonies, mainly in Ceylon and the West Indies in each year between 1834 and 1843, and also in 1860 and 1862.

The remaining three towns derived from Chateaugay remained in Franklin County: Bellmont ( 1833 ) and Franklin ( taken from Bellmont in 1834 ), and Burke ( 1844 ),.

Friedrich August von Alberti ( September 4, 1795 – September 12, 1878 ) was a German geologist whose ground-breaking 1834 publication recognized the unity of the three characteristic strata that compose the sedimentary deposits of the Triassic period in Northern Europe.

A selection of three or four designs was sent from Australia, and one was chosen by the Māori chiefs at a meeting at his residency on 20 March 1834 ; see United Tribes of New Zealand.

Around 1834 the Barber brothers arrived and within three years had purchased the mills from Kennedy.

She died in 1834 and three years later, in August 1837, he married Georgiana, daughter of Lewis Goldsmith.

The town of Neukirch has contained three active potteries to continue the tradition, that of the Kannegiesser family begun in 1824, that of Karl Louis Lehmann established in 1834, and the Heinke Pottery producing ware since 1866.

Artists produced two to three new images every week for 64 years ( 1834 – 1895 ), producing more than a million prints by hand-colored lithography.

Eight true Martello towers were built in Jersey, three between 1808 and 1814, and five between 1834 and 1837, one of which, L ' Etacq, the German occupation forces destroyed during World War II.

It derives its name from the Rancho Los Encinos ( Ranch of the Evergreens ), a parcel of land given to three Mission Indians by the Mexican government following its secularization of the California missions beginning in 1834.

In the ninth edition of Modern Chess Openings, Walter Korn noted that the Sicilian " received three of its earliest practical tests, and a big boost in popularity, in the 1834 MacDonnell – La Bourdonnais match, 1843 Staunton – St.

To exert greater control of the lands and people of Muang Phuan, the Siamese launched three separate campaigns ( 1777 – 79, 1834 – 36 and 1875 / 76 ) to resettle large parts of the Phuan population to the south in regions under firm Siamese control.

Henry Spencer Ashbee ( 21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900 ) was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer, notorious for his massive, clandestine three volume bibliography of erotic literature written under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi.

Lord Spencer survived her by three years and died in November 1834, aged 76, at Althorp, and was buried in the nearby village of Great Brington on 19 November of that year.