I shall never be able to realise the too sanguine hopes of my friends, for at twenty-eight I am a thoroughly old man – mentally and bodily. Far moreso, indeed, than I am willing to express.
Category: Branwell Bronte
Patrick Branwell Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /ˈbrɒnteɪ/; 26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was an English painter, a writer and a poet, the only son of the Brontë family, and the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne.