Who wrote under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell?

Arohanui, I'm sure they had a tough life but the artist must have made them bite a lemon before they posed for that portrait!

Beautiful faces. Till today in most communities people are ashamed of being diagnosed of tuberculosis. It is airborne n no other strings attached. Another thing is that staying with a TB patient is obvious that u can be a carrier so they were involved. Sorry.

baymax, do you know it's not a photograph? If you're ever in Yorkshire, it is worth visiting the Brontë Parsonage museum in Howarth.

jeez what a miserable looking lot aren't they, not a smile between them!