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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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.
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Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Drabble
MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...
Intertextuality and Influence Daphne Du Maurier
She wrote this novel during the previous winter at her parents' country house, Ferryside at Bodinnick in Cornwall.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
While she worked at it, some lines from an Emily Brontë poem (Self-Interrogation) came...
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
HD 's many other writings include reviews (of both poetry and fiction), introductions (to the poems of Emily Brontë , the stories of D. H. Lawrence and F. Scott Fitzgerald , and a study of...
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...
Textual Production Margiad Evans
At the end of the 1940s, when she was writing extremely hard, she began work on a book about Emily Brontë . She abandoned it soon after her first epileptic seizure, feeling that it was...
Textual Production Eva Figes
EF published a novel entitled Nelly's Version: Nelly is Nelly Dean, part-narrator of Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights, but Brontë's character does not directly appear in the story.
British Book News. British Council.
(1977): June insert
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eva Figes
Though she mentions such writers as Eliza Haywood and Mary Davys , she begins her detailed discussion with the 1790s (a time which twenty years on would be regarded as somewhat late in the history...
Intertextuality and Influence Isabella Ormston Ford
The novel quotes as epigraph the stanza in which Emily Brontë says that her only prayer is a prayer for liberty. It opens in scorching early summer in Portman Square, London, in the town...
Textual Production 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...
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.
Education Jessie Fothergill
She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of...
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...
Textual Production 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,
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which also saw...
Intertextuality and Influence Jane Gardam
Again the story centres on a girl growing up, though some attention is given too to her younger siblings, Sebastian and Phoebe (known from her pebble glasses as Beams). It is their father, the Reverend...

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