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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research.
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Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW
was by this time establishing a name for herself as an poet. In 1890 Elizabeth A. Sharp
included three of her poems in Women Poets of the Victorian Era. The anthology also features...
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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...
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Muriel Spark
MS
edited and published A Selection of Poems by Emily Brontë, with an introduction, for the Crown Classics Series published by Grey Walls Press
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Though this was the official publication date, the British Library
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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Muriel Spark
MS
and Derek Stanford
published their joint study Emily Brontë
: Her Life and Work, after she had had to wait for his part of the venture, which came in late.
The actual text...
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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.
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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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