Perhaps the more mundane suggestion that one sibling caught the disease from another, or from anyone else, undermines the idea that the Brontës were as unique or romantic as we have often liked to think. This unfortunate young woman died of consumption just over a week ago. More than one-third of those fatalities were aged 15 to 34 half of those aged 20 to 24, giving Consumption the name the robber of youth. It seems as though we want Emily, in particular, to have died because she was ready to do so, or because a tragic fate willed that it was her time. Between 18 in England and Wales four million died from consumption. Whether with surreal humour or with pathos, the Brontës’ deaths have often been presented as though they were all characters in a novel.
Anne laments a miserable life in which she has never been touched by a desiring hand – and then dies. In reality, tuberculosis, commonly called consumption in the 19th century, killed more people in New England, particularly in the Boston area, than any other. Consumption (disease) synonyms, Consumption (disease) pronunciation, Consumption (disease) translation, English dictionary definition of Consumption (disease). Emily sings that she is a “Goth before my time” and then dies. Branwell is handed copies of his sisters’ published works and then immediately dies. Birthplace: Monroe Hall, Virginia, United States. Carl Barnes’s brilliantly funny musical Wasted, however, seems to deliberately reference the sheer absurdity of so much death in one family. 16James Monroe(One of the Founding Fathers Who Served as the 5th President of the United States) 65 16. Response to infection is varied amongst individuals, some showing no signs while a few will die of the effects, these variations in host resistance being under genetic control. In 2016, BBC Two’s documentary Being the Brontës described the sisters’ “frail bodies” giving up on them “so young”, again suggesting a kind of fatalism about their deaths. a contagious human disease (the consumption of Victorian times) affecting particularly the lungs, that is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events
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