If you are still not sure as to give the
Brontë Parsonage replica, the
first editions or the letter by Charlotte to your loved Brontë fans, wait until you have read this before you make up your mind.
Introducing our most expensive present so far:
St George's House, the house where a young Patrick Brontë stayed in while he lived in Essex and was in love with Mary Burder.
The face of English Literature might have been changed by a chance meeting in 1807 when a humble curate was smitten by a pretty young woman who was preparing a meal with his landlady in the kitchen of St George's House, Wethersfield, Essex. Patrick Brontë later asked for 18-year-old Mary Burder's hand, but was rejected by her family. Broken-hearted, Brontë moved to Shropshire, then Yorkshire, where he wed Maria Branwell. She bore him five children including Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
Had the Essex romance blossomed, we might never have had Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights or The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Today, St George's House is Grade II* listed, and is being sold by Carter Jonas at a guide price of £565,000.You can't say we're not offering you a wide range of possibilities for your presents!
---The picture has been taken from here (an interesting link, by the way)Categories: Brontëana, Patrick_Brontë
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