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| Bronte writing table goes on show at Haworth Parsonage | Bronte writing table goes on show at Haworth Parsonage |
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| A writing table at which the Brontë sisters penned some of their greatest works has gone on public display after it was bought for £580,000. | A writing table at which the Brontë sisters penned some of their greatest works has gone on public display after it was bought for £580,000. |
| The table was purchased by the Bronte Society at Haworth with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund. | The table was purchased by the Bronte Society at Haworth with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund. |
| It has now gone on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. | It has now gone on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. |
| The table, which witnessed the creation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre, was sold in 1861 after their father Patrick's death. | |
| The Brontë sisters | |
| Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were 19th Century novelists who formed one of the world's most famous literary families | |
| Often left alone together in their isolated Haworth home, all three sisters began to write stories at an early age | |
| Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights are hailed as British classics. Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a huge bestseller | |
| Tragedy struck the family when Emily and Anne both died of tuberculosis within six months in 1848-49. It also killed their brother, Branwell | |
| Charlotte continued to write and later married, but she too was killed by the disease in March 1855 | |
| Ann Dinsdale, collections manager at the Haworth Parsonage, said: "If it had gone to auction we've been advised that it could have fetched £1m and probably would have gone to an overseas collector. | Ann Dinsdale, collections manager at the Haworth Parsonage, said: "If it had gone to auction we've been advised that it could have fetched £1m and probably would have gone to an overseas collector. |
| "At least now we've secured it for the nation and we're so grateful to the Memorial Fund for all their support with this." | "At least now we've secured it for the nation and we're so grateful to the Memorial Fund for all their support with this." |
| The mahogany drop-leaf table has ink blots, a large candle burn and a letter E carved into its surface. | The mahogany drop-leaf table has ink blots, a large candle burn and a letter E carved into its surface. |
| It has now gone on public display in its original position in the dining room at the parsonage. | It has now gone on public display in its original position in the dining room at the parsonage. |