5/28/2023 0 Comments Emily brontëIt is unusual for a writer's success to be founded upon one novel, still more for it to remain popular. First was Jane Eyre, which met with favour and success for Charlotte, then Wuthering Heights was published as a three volume work with Anne's Agnes Grey. Fearing to reveal they were female they wrote under pseudonyms - Currer, Acton and Eliss Bell. Publishing was as challenging for new writers 150 years ago as it is today. 'Unlike Charlotte she is often technically maladriot, yet her one novel is a work of extraordinary genius.' 'In many ways she is more highly regarded than her sisters,' observes literary critic and author, Francis King. Her husband outlived them all, dying in 1861.Įmily's novel and poetry is all of her work that survives. Mrs Brontë had six children in nine years. From Ireland, he changed his name to Brontë to honour Lord Nelson whose title it was. Their mother, Maria, came from Cornwall and married, at Guiseley church near Leeds, the Reverend Patrick Brunty. They were not all of Yorkshire stock, through born there. Though they worked separately their works are closely involved. Apart from local forays as governesses the women remained in Yorkshire and worked in solitude. At Haworth near Keighley, Emily lived, worked - and died at only 30 on December 19, 1848.Īt the Parsonage here the three sisters and a brother, lonely, close, often ill, worked on writing poetry and romantic fiction. Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire.
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