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.
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.
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May Sinclair
MS
published The Three Brontës, a critical and interpretive essay assessing Charlotte
, Anne
, and Emily
as people and as artists.
Although some of the collaboratively produced juvenilia of the Brontë children is still extant, none has survived that was individually authored by AB
.
Chitham, Edward. A Life of Anne Brontë. B. Blackwell.
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In their childhood play which developed into the fantasy worlds...
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Dora Carrington
She produced a pen-and-ink drawing for an edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
, but this was never used.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press.
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Jean Plaidy
JP
had begun writing some years before this first publication.
Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 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
,...
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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...
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Rumer Godden
Years before, Rumer had hoped they might be the new Brontësisters
.
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books.
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They felt they knew India better than most adult Anglo-Indians.
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Anne Brontë
Charlotte
, Emily
, and Anne published a collection, Poems, under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
Bell was the middle name of their father's curate.
Gérin, Winifred. Emily Brontë: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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They received their first copies on...
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Phyllis Bentley
PB
published her first of five critical texts about the lives and works of the threeBrontësisters
, The Brontës.
“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...
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
.
Though this was the official publication date, the British Library
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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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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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