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Emily
Brontë
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 Born:
30 July 1818; Thornton, England
Second child of four born to Patrick & Maria
Influenced by Blackwood's Magazine
---- (Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey) - Cowan Bridge
School - 1824
Emily and sister Anne create the fantasy kingdom of Gondal - c.1934
- Teacher at
Law Hill, Halifax - 1838
- Brussels
w/father Patrick and sister Charlotte - 1842
- Unable to
stay away from Haworth for long
The sisters (Charlotte, Emily, Anne) attempt, unsuccessfully,
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to
open a boarding school - 1844
Death of brother Branwell; tuberculosis
- 1848
- Dies: 19
December 1848; Haworth, England;
tuberculosis.
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Poems by Ellis
Bell - 1846
Wuthering Heights -
1847 |
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- The
one great novel, whatever compensation it may have meant for life
unlived, was a remarkable representation of life deeply
understood. For Emily Brontë had the wisdom to
accept her limitations and convert them into strengths.
She nourished rather than fought her introspective bent,
and so achieved an intense awareness of inward conflict -
and, even, some intuitive knowledge of the unconscious.
It is astonishing how far introspection could carry an
author so innocent of experience.
- - Albert J.
Guerard
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- "I
have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe,
the more
I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral
teething; and I grind with greater energy, in proportion
to the increase of pain."
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Wuthering
Heights
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