Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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 by Branwell, c. 1834" by Branwell Brontë,Retrieved from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/The_Bront%C3%AB_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bront%C3%AB_restored.jpg.
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Emily
, Anne
, and CB
published a collection, Poems, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
The pseudonym of Currer Bell may have been based on the name of Miss Currer
of...
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Jessie Fothergill
In addition to her novels, JF
published a number of essays describing her travels abroad, as well as an exuberant appraisal of Emily Brontë
's Wuthering Heights; other essays and short stories are beginning...
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Anne Devlin
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adapted Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
for Paramount Films
. The official title, for copyright reasons involving the film version of 1939, was Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
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“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
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Anne Brontë
Anne
and Emily
Brontë's first novels, Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights respectively, were published together in three volumes.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Dora Sigerson
DS
's last publication, eight years after her death, was Ernest Benn
's printing of twenty-one of her poems as a pamphlet in its Augustan Books of Poetry series.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Other poets in this series included...
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Monica Furlong
In 2000 MF
, together with Andrew J. Weaver
, edited Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth by a number of more or less well-known Christians. A paperback edition appeared in 2001,
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
which also saw...
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Emma Frances Brooke
It seems that EFB
began writing seriously for financial reasons after her sudden loss of fortune and her move south to Hampstead in London in 1879.
Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press, 1971.
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Daniels, Kay. “Emma Brooke: Fabian, feminist and writer”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 2, 2003, pp. 153-68.
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She officially adopted authorship as her profession...
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Rumer Godden
Years before, Rumer had hoped they might be the new Brontësisters
.
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999.
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They felt they knew India better than most adult Anglo-Indians.
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Flora Thompson
In 1923 The Catholic Fireside launched FT
's column entitled the Fireside Reading Circle. As well as competitions for readers, with her critiques on their efforts, it included her own essays on literary topics...
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Emma Tennant
ET
published with Tartarus Press
of Leyburn in Yorkshire another Brontë novel, entitled Heathcliff's Tale, which has in fact as much to say about Branwell
as about Emily
.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Although some of the collaboratively produced juvenilia of the Brontë children is still extant, none has survived that was individually authored by AB
.
Chitham, Edward. A Life of Anne Brontë. B. Blackwell, 1991.
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In their childhood play which developed into the fantasy worlds...
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Dora Carrington
She produced a pen-and-ink drawing for an edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
, but this was never used.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
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A. Mary F. Robinson
AMFR
published her one-volume biography Emily Brontë as one of the Eminent Women series.
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.
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Anne Brontë
Charlotte
, Emily
, and Anne published a collection, Poems, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
Bell was the middle name of their father's curate.
Gérin, Winifred. Emily Brontë: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1971.
