HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY, EMILY BRONTË!

Emily Brontë was born on 30th July 1818, the 5th child of the Reverend Patrick Brontë, a stern Evangelical curate, and his wife Maria. 
When Emily was three years old, her mother died of cancer, and her Aunt Branwell, a strict Calvinist, moved in to help raise the six children (another daughter, Anne, was born soon after Emily). They lived in a parsonage in Haworth with the bleak moors of Yorkshire on one side and the parish graveyard on the other. 

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THE BRONTË SISTERS

Emily Brontë is best known for authoring the novel Wuthering Heights (1847) which received wide critical and commercial acclaim. She was the sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë, also famous authors. Read here.

Charlotte Brontë became identified in the public mind as the author of the popular novel Jane Eyre (1847), a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition. The novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian fiction. She later wrote Shirley (1849) and Villette (1853). Read here.

Anne Brontë was  the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She wrote two novels: Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847; her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Read here.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMILY BRONTË!

Emily Brontë was born on 30th July 1818, the 5th child of the Reverend Patrick Brontë, a stern Evangelical curate, and his wife Maria. When Emily was three years old, her mother died of cancer, and her Aunt Branwell, a strict Calvinist, moved in to help raise the six children (another daughter, Anne, was born soon after Emily). They lived in a parsonage in Haworth with the bleak moors of Yorkshire on one side and the parish graveyard on the other. 
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“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” 
Emily Brontë, "Wuthering Heights"

REMEMBERING EMILY BRONTË

Emily Brontë is best known for writing the novel Wuthering Heights in 1847. She was the sister of Charlotte and Anne Brontë, also famous authors.

At first, reviewers did not know what to make of Wuthering Heights, a novel where realism and Gothic symbolism combine to form a work of fiction which is full of social relevance  and where themes such as good versus evil, chaos and order, selfishness, betrayal and obsession intertwine as the story unfolds.  It was only after Emily Brontë's death that the book developed its reputation as a literary masterwork. She died of tuberculosis on 19 December 1848.

The parsonage where Emily Brontë spent much of her life is now a museum.  The Brontë Society operates the museum and works to preserve and honor the work of the Brontë sisters. Read here. 

Here you can read my previous post on Emily Brontë's novel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EMILY BRONTË!

Emily Brontë   was born  in Thornton, Yorkshire, England   on 30 July 1818.  She produced only  one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative novel of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors, which  is considered one of the greatest novels in the history of literature.
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Here you can find my previous post on Wuthering Heights. 

Emily Brontë: Biography & Writings

Introduction to Wuthering Heights