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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Textual Production 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.
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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
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
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...
Textual Production May Sinclair
The first of MS 's introductions to the Everyman's Library reprints of the BrontëAnne BrontëEmily Brontë sisters' novels, the one to Wuthering Heights, was published.
Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
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Textual Production 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...
Textual Production Charlotte Brontë
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.
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
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Textual Production May Sinclair
MS published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte , Anne , and Emily as people and as artists.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Zarin, Cynthia. “The Diarist: How E. M. Delafield Launched a Genre”. New Yorker, 9 May 2005, pp. 44-9.
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Textual Production Jean Plaidy
JP had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, pp. 23-4.
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During the 1930s she produced nine long novels, in which she tried to emulate her literary heroes (theBrontësEmily Brontë , George Eliot ,...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
BL 's numerous plays for radio include some original and some adapted from other works: Laying Ghosts, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Velma and Therese (a parallel version of the film Thelma and...
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant's contribution was The Sisters BrontëEmily BrontëAnne Brontë, a sharply perceived and proto-feminist analysis.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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Textual Production 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 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...
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
MAW produced a series of introductions to the Haworth edition of works by Charlotte , Emily , and Anne Brontë .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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