parsonage

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The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

It begins in a country parsonage, moves through social insecurity to final productive years in a cottage Austen shared with a beloved sister, mother and close friend.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

In 1820, the Brontes moved to the parsonage in Howarth, where the sisters wrote masterpieces including Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2023

At 13, Jay got his first summer construction job, hauling bricks and mixing mortar for a crew building a church parsonage just over the county line.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2023

Carriages, carts, and wagons carrying merchants, goods for sale, and travelers—the outside world—passed by the parsonage every day.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman