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That sort of communal artistic focus seems wonderfully conducive to creativity and is part of the Bronte's lives which I envy. I don't, however, envy them the medical ignorance of the times in which they lived, which is what leaves us with such mystery and ability to speculate about the possibilities fostered by such closeness and the feelings which may have simmered in the Haworth pot. Was it all proper sibling affection, or were there sibling rivalries which may have led to murder? Or the outsider, Nicholls, for some reason of his own wanting to kill the Brontes. I recently purchased a second-hand book, "The Brontes A Life in Letters" edited by Juliet Barker, in the intro it is said that Nicholls threatened to censor Charlotte's future letters to Ellen Nussey if Ellen did not promise to burn them. This presents him as a tyrannical husband who wanted to present a picture of himself as loving, which is how we generally think of him because of the letters, but what if she were concealing the truth?
I think there's lots more to the Bronte story than meets the eye. The official version just doesn't make sense to me. Lots of scope for the imaginations of many novelists or research historians.
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