About emily bronte6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Her father, of Irish descent, was known for his poetry and imagination even though he was the cleric. Her family moved to Haworth when she was two years old, and here she first experienced the moors, a part of the Pennine Chain of mountains, andhere she lived until she died 30 years later.Ī variety of conflicting influences shaped her life. Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, on July 30, 1818, she was the sister of Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Anne, and Branwell. ![]() ![]() Thus, in order to ascertain what type of writer Brontë was, critics must speculate based on a limited family history, some poems, and one excellent novel.īrontë was one of six children born to Reverend Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell Brontë. ![]() " Wuthering Heights is a strange sort of book - baffling all regular criticism yet, it is impossible to begin and not finish it and quite as impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about it." This review, from Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper, was one of the first receptions to Emily Brontë's novel, and concluded with the line, "we must leave it to our readers to decide what sort of a book it is." The conclusion in this review, which is the extent of praise the novel received on its publication, pertains not only to the novel Wuthering Heights but to Emily Brontë herself it is up to readers to determine what type of writer Brontë was: Besides Wuthering Heights, only a few poems of hers exist and precious little of her personal history exists to complement those writings. ![]()
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