Emily Brontë

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Standard Name: Brontë, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Brontë
Pseudonym: Ellis Bell
Used Form: Emily Bronte
Used Form: Two
Emily Brontë collaborated with her siblings on a body of juvenilia, and by herself wrote a small number of poems and a single surviving novel. Wuthering Heights is established as one of the most original and disturbing novels of the mid-nineteenth century. Its compelling imagery, sophisticated narrative technique, and powerful, indeed violent, story—part ghost story, part romance, part anatomy of social hierarchies and cultural conflict—details the enmity between two families on the Yorkshire moors that erupts when a strange child is adopted into one of them, and which is only resolved in the subsequent generation.
Charlotte Brontë painted with her sisters Emily and Anne by their brother Branwell, c. 1834 (said by Elizabeth Gaskell to have captured excellent likenesses despite its lack of artistic skill). National Portrait Gallery.
Painting of Emily Brontë in a green dress with large collar, cropped from the group portrait by her brother Branwell, c. 1834, of all three sisters (and of himself, painted over). The picture was long lost to view, and has crease marks from being folded. National Portrait Gallery.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary Setting Olive Schreiner
Cherry Clayton believes the novel's fictional English setting, Greenwood, was influenced by the English landscapes in the works of Hardy , George Eliot , and the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë . Schreiner herself had not yet been to...
Literary Setting Elizabeth Gaskell
Towards the close of the book, EG declines to pronounce on her subject: I cannot measure or judge of such a character as hers.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Editor Shelston, Alan, Penguin, 1975.
526
Yet the book as a whole cannot help but pass...
Literary Setting Kate Clanchy
Some stories concern painful and intractible moral and emotional dilemmas as they present themselves in ordinary life, like the inner defences automatically in place against believing that one's father has Alzheimer's. Several explore the relationship...
Occupation Sydney Thompson Dobell
While best remembered for writing spasmodic poetry, STD also worked as a reviewer. In the Palladium and the Athenæum he gave positive reviews to works by Anne , Emily , and Charlotte Brontë .
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Occupation Charlotte Brontë
Patrick Brontë opened a National Church Sunday School at Haworth, to which Emily , and Anne , and CB contributed by teaching.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Performance of text Elizabeth Goudge
The first of EG 's plays to be professionally staged, TheBrontësofHaworth, opened at the Charta Theatre in London.
“Elizabeth Goudge Books”. Anglophile Books: British women authors.
Performance of text Clemence Dane
CD 's Wild Decembers, based on the lives of the BrontëEmily BrontëAnne BrontëBranwell Brontë family, had its first performance, at the Apollo Theatre , London.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 133
Demastes, William W., and Katherine E. Kelly, editors. British Playwrights, 1880-1956. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Author summary A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR 's long career occupied the late decades of nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. It spanned two countries, England and France, and two languages, English and French. Robinson was generally...
Author summary Phyllis Bentley
Phyllis Bentley was a prolific and successful novelist, literary critic, short-story writer, children's writer, and journalist, who was productive over a broad span of the twentieth century. Almost all her twenty-eight novels and numerous short...
Publishing Jessie Fothergill
A fan of the Brontë sisters, JF published a glowing appraisal of Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights in the December 1887 edition of Temple Bar, participating in the late Victorian recuperation of Brontë's literary reputation.
Publishing Anne Brontë
After AB 's death, Agnes Grey was reprinted with Wuthering Heights, some of the sisters ' poetry, and a biographical preface by Charlotte , who considered this novel more suitable than The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Brontë, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell; Editors Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights; Extract from the Prefatory Note to Selections from Poems by Ellis Bell”. Wuthering Heights, edited by Professor Ian Jack and Professor Ian Jack, Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 359 - 65; 365.
365
Brontë, Anne, and Charles William Hatfield. The Complete Poems of Anne Brontë. Editor Shorter, Clement, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921.
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Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
594
Publishing Charlotte Mew
The Poems of Emily Brontë, CM 's article reclaiming the neglected poems of that great genius,
Mew, Charlotte. Collected Poems and Prose. Editor Warner, Val, Carcanet and Virago, 1981.
356
was published in Temple Bar.
Mew, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Collected Poems and Prose, edited by Val Warner, Carcanet and Virago, 1981, p. ix - xxii.
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Publishing Romer Wilson
RW published a biography, All Alone: The Life and Private History of Emily Jane Brontë, for which she had been commissioned the previous year.
Selincourt, Ernest De. “The Brontës: Review of All Alone by Romer Wilson”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1376, 15 June 1928, p. 446.
446
Seymour-Smith, Martin, and Andrew C. Kimmens, editors. World Authors, 1900-1950. H. W. Wilson, 1996.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Anne Brontë
The novel was accepted for publication by the London publisher Thomas Cautley Newby along with Emily 's Wuthering Heights. The sisters had to underwrite the publication by paying £50, to be refunded if sales...
Reception Jean Plaidy
In 1991, JP said of Mistress of Mellyn: This was the sort of book that I loved to write, because I had read so much of the BrontësCharlotte BrontëAnne Brontë , over and over again, and...

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