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Poison pen of Bronte sister: Charlotte killed family says author.(Features)
From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Date: 19990611
Author:Starrett, Ian
LITERARY legend Charlotte Bronte - daughter of a former Northern Ireland clergyman - was a serial killer, it has been sensationally claimed.
The author of the classic Jane Eyre, whose father was the Rev Patrick Bronte, a native of Co Down, may have murdered her brother and famous sisters, according to leading criminologist James Tully.
The Bronte family were well known among the tight-knit community of the Mountains of Mourne where Mr Bronte was in charge of the parish of Ahaderg, near Loughbrickland.
It was in their Yorkshire parsonage home at ...
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