The Brontë Sisters on the Biography Channel

The US Biography Channel aires today the episode of Biography Classroom devoted to the Brontë Sisters. Pay attention to the summary of the documentary because it's priceless:

Biography Classroom
“The Brontë Sisters.”
Wednesday, June 28 @ 7:00 am ET
Running Time: 60 Minutes

The fascinating story of Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brontë, who wrote under the pen names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell in the 1850s, when women were not allowed to publish under their own names. Charlotte, who wrote Jane Eyre, died in childbirth; and Emily's only work was the romantic classic Wuthering Heights. The sisters, who wrote to stave off boredom, published a joint volume of poetry before their untimely deaths.

It's difficult to, in so few lines, make so many mistakes. Let's accept 1850s... although Emily and Anne died before, but what about this:

An egregious lie: Charlotte Brontë died in childbirth.
A (stupid) arbitrary theory : The sisters wrote to stave off boredom.
A fact so badly expressed that misinforms: The sisters published a joint volume of poetry before their untimely deaths (it seems that the Poems were their last book, not their first one) ?

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