Brontë Country Brontë Country Brontë Country is a name given to an area of south Pennine hills west of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The name comes from the Brontë sisters, who wrote such literary classics as "Jane Eyre" (Charlotte Brontë), "Wuthering Heights" (Emily Brontë), and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" (Anne Brontë) while living in the area. The geology of the Brontë country is mainly gritstone. The area includes the village of Haworth, where the Brontë sisters lived, and where the Brontë Parsonage Museum is located today. Top Withens is said to have been the inspiration for "Wuthering Heights". Ponden Hall,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to write; still less has it been a pleasant training which could teach an author such awful facts, or give courage to write them. The fault of the book is coarseness--not merely that coarseness of subject which will be the stumbling-block of most readers, and which makes it utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls..." Despite this, he believed that: "[English] society owes thanks, not sneers, to those who dare to shew her the image of her own ugly, hypocritical visage". "Spectator" wrote: ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", like its predecessor ["Jane Eyre"], suggests the idea of