Bronte Sisters, The

London, about 1850, during a performance at the Royal Italian House at Covent Garden. Among the elegant audience is Charlotte Brontë accompanied by her husband, Reverend Nicolls, and his publisher, Mr Smith. Charlotte makes the acquaintance of the most famous writer of his time, Thackeray. As the curtain goes up, Charlotte recalls certain episodes from her life at the Howarth rectory with her father, her sisters Emily and Anne and her brother Branwell...