The Shadow on the Wall

Published: March 31, 2021, 10:38 p.m.

He would go down as everything from the failure of the family to the romantic anti-hero his sisters would become famous for creating, but he would go down, while history would see his sisters raised to the highest echelons in literature. They were the Bronte sisters. He, in the end, was much less. But before that, he was Branwell Bronte.