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.
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...
Textual Features
Liz Lochhead
Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman,
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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the revue explores many facets of a woman's life, from her dramas, her traumas, and her fiascos to her fainting spasms; / the ins-and-outs of her...
The word regional, said Welty, is careless, condescending, and an outsider's term; it has no meaning for the insider who is doing the writing.Jane Austen
, theBrontësisters
, and the writers...
Textual Production
Phyllis Bentley
In 1949 PB
both arranged and introduced the six-volume Heather Edition of the Brontës' works, and supplied an introduction for an edition of Charlotte Brontë
's The Professor, which was published with poems and...
CB
had begun creating plays with her siblings: both secret Bed plays produced under the covers with Emily
in their shared bed, and daytime plays involving Branwell
and Anne
as well.
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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
.
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Textual Production
E. M. Delafield
In the same year, EMD
edited the book of literary criticism, The BrontëCharlotte BrontëEmily Brontë
s: Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries, published by Hogarth Press
.
Zarin, Cynthia. “The Diarist: How E. M. Delafield Launched a Genre”. New Yorker, pp. 44-9.
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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...
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Charlotte Brontë
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...
Textual Production
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.
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“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
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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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