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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) was an English novelist and poet, the middle Brontë sister of the trio whose novels are classics of English literature: Emily's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte's Jane Eyre, and Anne's Agnes Grey. Emily was an avid poet, when the sisters discovered Emily's talent, the three published a joint collection of poetry in 1846. To get around the prejudice in their day against female writers, the sisters published under pseudonyms. They kept their initials the same: Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell, and Emily became Ellis Bell. In 1847, Emily published Wuthering Heights, her only novel. It first appeared as two volumes of a three volume set, the last volume being Agnes Grey by Anne. It had a unique structure that earned it mixed reviews at first, but it has since become a classic. In 1850, two years after Emily's death, Charlotte published Wuthering Heights as a novel on its own and under Emily's real name.
Works available on Lit2Go:
- Wuthering Heights
- Poems
- "Anticipation"
- "Death"
- "Encouragement"
- "Faith and Despondency"
- "Honour's Martyr"
- "Hope"
- "Last Words"
- "Love and Friendship"
- "My Comforter"
- "No Coward Soul Is Mine"
- "Plead for Me"
- "Self-Interrogation"
- "Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee"
- "Song"
- "Stanzas"
- "Stars"
- "Sympathy"
- "The Bluebell"
- "The Elder's Rebuke"
- "The Lady to Her Guitar"
- "The Night-Wind"
- "The Old Stoic"
- "The Philosohper"
- "The Prisoner"
- "The Two Children"
- "The Visionary"
- "The Wanderer from the Fold"
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