The Brontës

Short History Of...

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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⁠A Short History of Ancient Rome⁠ - the debut book from the Noiser Network is out now! Discover the epic rise and fall of Rome like never before. Pick up your copy now at your local bookstore or visit ⁠⁠noiser.com/books⁠⁠ to learn more. Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë were among the most famous authors of the nineteenth century. Though they wrote at a time when women were systematically discouraged from doing so at all, they managed to produce some of the most beloved, powerful and often challenging literature of the Victorian age. How did three sisters from the Yorkshire Moors become celebrated writers? Why did they use pseudonyms and live most of their lives in obscurity? And what were the tragedies that whittled their number down in their prime? This is a Short History Of The Brontës. A ⁠Noiser⁠ podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. With thanks to Nick Holland, author of three books on the family, including “In Search of Anne Brontë” Written by Erin Parker | Produced by Kate Simants | Production Assistant: Chris McDonald | Exec produced by Katrina Hughes | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Oliver Sanders | Assembly edit by Anisha Deva | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: The Soundhouse Studios | Fact Check: Sean Coleman Get every episode of Short History Of… a week early with ⁠Noiser+⁠. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to shows across the Noiser podcast network. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Cadbury Heroes.
0:05.2	If the past teaches us anything, it's this.
0:08.4	One great individual can change a moment, but when a group of great individuals come together,
0:13.6	that's when history is made.
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1:01.0	It's late in the day, sometime in the early 1800s on a wind-swept more than the north of England. A bitter gale whips a young woman's cloak as she stumbles over the uneven ground.
1:07.0	The village she left, hours ago, has disappeared from view, and it's been a long time since she last ate.
1:15.6	A humiliating handful of porridge begged from a farmer's daughter who'd been about to feed it to her pigs.
1:23.6	With the light already fading, tumultuous clouds above her threaten rain at any moment.
1:31.3	Still, there is hope.
1:34.3	If she can only make it to that house in the distance, where she is sure she sees a candle burning in a window, maybe she'll sleep with a roof over her head tonight. Breathing heavily,
1:46.3	she struggles up the hill, her long woolen skirts sodden from the wet heather. But she's only
1:52.8	halfway up and the heavens open. Freezing rain lashes down, saturating her bonnet in seconds and seeping through her bodice right to the skin.
2:05.6	Even worse, as she pauses to peer through the downpour, she finds she has lost sight of the house.
2:12.6	Weak from hunger and desperately cold, she forces herself onward, stward stumbling sobbing getting back to her feet
2:21.0	persevering now a sudden crack of lightning illuminates the moorland as she looks up she sees the
2:32.5	house silhouetted for just a second against the purple sky.
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