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Day 24 - Emily Brontë
Mar. 24th, 2018 07:42 amEmily Brontë
Emily Brontë was one of three English sisters who, despite their secluded lives, wrote amazing books that have remained classic through the years.
The girls were born in a village in Yorkshire. Their father was a minister. Their mother died when they were small. There were 6 children and two died of typhoid when they were young. Their aunt came to help raise the children after their mother died.
They were always well read and often wrote stories based on a set of toy soldiers belonging to their brother. Later Emily and Anne made up their own fictional universe and wrote stories for it.
Emily was the shy sister and preferred to stay home and after a short stint as a teacher, she became the housekeeper at home. She loved walking the moors and spending time alone. She wrote poetry and often shared it with her sister Anne.
Emily kept her poetry in notebooks. Charlotte found the notebooks and insisted that they publish them, along with her poetry and Anne’s as well. Emily refused at first but finally relented. They published them under the name Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, sure that they would not be taken seriously if they were revealed as women.
In 1847, Emily published Wuthering Heights and it was rather scandalous as it was not a garden variety romance but a dark novel of human passion. Ellis Bell was the pen name she used. This was her only novel and one of my favorites. Wuthering heights is considered one of the first modern gothic novels, a new genre for its time.
Emily died shortly after her brother Branwell in 1848.
The sisters from left to right: Anne, Emily, Charlotte – Painted by Branwell Brontë.
The original title page to Wuthering Heights:
Emily Brontë was one of three English sisters who, despite their secluded lives, wrote amazing books that have remained classic through the years.
The girls were born in a village in Yorkshire. Their father was a minister. Their mother died when they were small. There were 6 children and two died of typhoid when they were young. Their aunt came to help raise the children after their mother died.
They were always well read and often wrote stories based on a set of toy soldiers belonging to their brother. Later Emily and Anne made up their own fictional universe and wrote stories for it.
Emily was the shy sister and preferred to stay home and after a short stint as a teacher, she became the housekeeper at home. She loved walking the moors and spending time alone. She wrote poetry and often shared it with her sister Anne.
Emily kept her poetry in notebooks. Charlotte found the notebooks and insisted that they publish them, along with her poetry and Anne’s as well. Emily refused at first but finally relented. They published them under the name Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, sure that they would not be taken seriously if they were revealed as women.
In 1847, Emily published Wuthering Heights and it was rather scandalous as it was not a garden variety romance but a dark novel of human passion. Ellis Bell was the pen name she used. This was her only novel and one of my favorites. Wuthering heights is considered one of the first modern gothic novels, a new genre for its time.
Emily died shortly after her brother Branwell in 1848.
The sisters from left to right: Anne, Emily, Charlotte – Painted by Branwell Brontë.
The original title page to Wuthering Heights:
