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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Edna O'Brien
The title of this novel comes from O'Brien's four-line epigraph from Emily Brontë , where the phrase rhymes with Faithful indeed is the spirit that remembers.
qtd. in
O’Brien, Edna. Wild Decembers. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
prelims
Intertextuality and Influence May Sinclair
MS 's The Three Sisters appeared: a psychological/psychoanalytical novel which, although the sisters in question are not the BrontësEmily BrontëAnne Brontë , seems to take its setting from that of their lives.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
108, 225-6
Intertextuality and Influence Jessie Fothergill
Set against a backdrop of industrial intrigue and strikes, the plot turns on Katherine Healey's relationship with her brother, mill owner Wilfred Healey, her struggle against marriage to wealthy landowner Louis Kay, and her growing...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Waters
SW puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting...
Intertextuality and Influence May Sinclair
It is a ghost-story in which an archivist visiting a lonely house in Yorkshire sees an apparition of a non-existent crying child, in the manner of a famous episode in Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
131ff
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Bridge
At about twelve Mary Anne Sanders (later AB ) was meeting eminent scholars at dinner, because her businessman father, who had to leave the house early in the morning, insisted against convention on even his...
Intertextuality and Influence Stella Gibbons
SG 's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières...
Intertextuality and Influence Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Fiction and Mrs Brown opens with a long quotation in which Woolf relates how she observed this shabby, immaculate old lady on a train from Richmond to London, and saw her as the character...
Health Dora Carrington
Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
271-2
She had mused to Gerald Brenan in 1920...
Health Storm Jameson
SJ 's demanding work, travel, and personal commitments exacted a serious toll on her health. She contracted diphtheria as a young woman, probably when she nursed her son through it. Frequently exhausted, she also had...
Health Margiad Evans
As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent...
Friends, Associates Mary Taylor
Mary's descriptions of life abroad provided Charlotte Brontë with what she described as a wish for wings,
qtd. in
Taylor, Mary. Mary Taylor, Friend of Charlotte Brontë: Letters from New Zealand and Elsewhere. Editor Stevens, Joan, Auckland University Press; Oxford University Press, 1972.
22
and MT successfully urged her and her sister Emily to pursue their studies in Brussels; they...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Brontë
AB 's elder sisters were Maria (born in 1814), Elizabeth , (1815), Charlotte , (1816), and Emily (1818).
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
59, 61, 71, 78
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Brontë
The close of the year 1848 was terrible for AB . Her sister Emily died of consumption on 19 December, as had Branwell in September.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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