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
Reception Charlotte Brontë
CB travelled to London with her sister Anne to refute the claim that Currer , Ellis , and Acton Bell were a single author.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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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...
Reception Bessie Rayner Parkes
Remembered mostly for her prose contributions to the early feminist movement, BRP also produced poetic creations which deserve not to be dismissed. (Her daughter credits her with admiring the poetry of Percy Shelley and more...
Reception Mary Augusta Ward
Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
229
shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman
Reception Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT , whose works sold very well, was regarded as a major female author during the mid-Victorian period. She was incensed when in 1882 some one wrote a sketch of her life, and requested her...
Reception Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
This novel received excellent reviews and in early 1920 reached the short-list of three English submissions for the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, which however went in the end to Cicely Hamilton . In The Observer...
Reception Flora Thompson
In further Ladies Companion competitions the same year, FT went on to win joint second prize for her essay on Emily Brontë (which, again, the magazine printed) and another first prize for her essay on...
Reception George Sand
Many other British writers were strongly influenced by GS : Geraldine Jewsbury , Matilda Hays , Anne Ogle , Eliza Lynn Linton , Mathilde Blind , and, most notably, Emily and Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
Reception A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR , who had published a successful biography of Emily Brontë , was the only woman elected as one of eleven vice-presidents heading the newly formed Brontë Society .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Reception Anne Brontë
An anonymous reviewer of Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights in The Spectator for 18 December 1847 commented that the work of all three Charlotte BrontëEmily BrontëBrontë s suffered from injudicious selection of the theme and matter.
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.
218
Reception Caroline Clive
Hailed by many as the first sensation novel, Paul Ferroll also marks the beginning of the popularization of a modern breed of villainous hero,
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
although Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff, along with a whole older breed...
Residence Anne Lister
For the rest of her life AL lived at fifteenth-century Shibden Hall.
Shibden Hall is now a folk museum.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Halifax, the urban centre of AL 's life, is about twelve miles from Haworth...
Textual Features Muriel Spark
This novel, another treatment of suffering which looks back to the book of Job,
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
514
begins when a film director, Tom Richards, falls from a crane on a film set and is taken to...
Textual Features Marjorie Bowen
Bowen argues that art pays everlasting tribute to the everlasting energy and aspiration of the human spirit, and every artist must increase the ethical content of the civilization in which he works.
Bowen, Marjorie. Ethics in Modern Art. Watts and Company, 1939.
19
She points...
Textual Features Emily Dickinson
She began practising literary techniques in letters written to friends and family at this time. Evidence of a dialogic, corresponding voice permeates her poetry, resulting in what Archibald MacLeish reads as one of the central...

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