TERRIBLE SCHOOL

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1931, Page 11

TERRIBLE SCHOOL

BRONTE SISTERS’ TRIALS. ! _ In “The Bronte Sisters” is ' told afresh, the tragic story of the three gifted girls of last century. The Bronte children were brought up in a lonely parsonage on a remote Yorkshire moor after the severest early nineteenth century fashion. They had no childhood. They were to a school Compared with which Mr Sqiieer’s academy was almost para dise: ' ’ “In the morning some oatmeal por ridge that was unfit for pigs. . > The evening meal was a scrap of dry bread and a glass of diluted milk. . . . A rancid fat was employed in the cooking, and this gave a particular.flavour to all the food. . . The milk, too, variedly oddly and unexpectedly in its colour, and by some unexpected fatality it was always sour.” Small wonder that one of the children died, and that those who survived the horrible place were stunted and sickly in physique, yet two lived to become famous.