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The four Bronté children who lived past age 11 included Emily, who wrote Wuthering Heights, Charlotte, who wrote Jane Eyre, and Anne, who was the overshadowed Ted Kennedy of the family while writing Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall before dying at 29.

AND.

The lone dude: Branwell, who toiled in his sisters' shadows as a "painter," and "causal worker" - needless to say if he was around today he'd be a "dj." Also needless to say, he drove himself to death via alcoholism, presumably due to a mix of his sister's crushing success and, worse, being called "Branwell."

Are you telling me you can't turn this into a sitcom?

The Bronté sisters' beaux come calling, oh oh, Branwell gets them mixed up! BOOM! Here comes the sangria!!!!! OH-OH, Jane Austen (artistic license here, of course) and Dickens show up and make fun of all of them for not being prolific and dying from doo-doo in the drinking water, BOOM!

I mean, the shit writes itself.