And so Maria Branwell fades out of sight; we have no more direct intercourse with her; we hear of her as Mrs.Bronte, but it is as an invalid, not far from death; still patient, cheerful, and pious.

The writing of these letters is elegant and neat; while there are allusions to household occupations--such as making the wedding-cake; there are also allusions to the books she has read, or is reading, showing a well-cultivated mind.
Without having anything of her daughter's rare talents, Mrs.Bronte must have been, I imagine, that unusual character, a well-balanced and consistent woman.

The style of the letters is easy and good; as is also that of a paper from the same hand, entitled "The Advantages of Poverty in Religious Concerns," which was written rather later, with a view to publication in some periodical.
She was married from her uncle's house in Yorkshire, on the 29th of December, 1812; the same day was also the wedding-day of her younger sister, Charlotte Branwell, in distant Penzance.

I do not think that Mrs.Bronte ever revisited Cornwall, but she has left a very pleasant impression on the minds of those relations who yet survive; they speak of her as "their favourite aunt, and one to whom they, as well as all the family, looked up, as a person of talent and great amiability of disposition;" and, again, as "meek and retiring, while possessing more than ordinary talents, which she inherited from her father, and her piety was genuine and unobtrusive." Mr.Bronte remained for five years at Hartshead, in the parish of Dewsbury.

There he was married, and his two children, Maria and Elizabeth, were born.