the Female Victorian Writer Who Wrote Wuthering Heights
Emily Jane Bronte wrote the Gothic romance, Wuthering Heights, one of the greatest novels in the English language. What little is known about her personal life comes to us through Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte canada goose black friday sale Bronte (Emily’s sister) and Charlotte’s own descriptions of Emily. Of her own canada goose clearance sale papers, Emily leaves only 2 brief letters, 2 dairy entries, and the birthday papers of 1841 and 1845. Charlotte claims that her character Shirley, of the novel of the same name, is based on Emily.
Aside from a smattering of beautiful poetry, Emily Bronte’s singular gift to literature is Wuthering Heights; the rich, multi layered tale of the Earnshaw family and the famous characters, Cathy and Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights, a mainstay of English literature classes, a complex novel of love and vengeance, is still controversial today. While it has been called one of the most carefully constructed novels in the English language, Charlotte referred to Emily as ’an unconscious artist who did not know what she had done;’ in other words, a visionary genius.
Told by two possibly unreliable narrators Mr. Lockwood, an accidental guest at Wuthering Heights, and the Earnshaw family servant, Nelly Dean, Wuthering Heights relates a multi generational story of a dysfunctional Yorkshire family and deals with subject matter rarely presented in the literature of the day.
When Mr. Earnshaw brings home a waif, his canada goose outlet new york city daughter Cathy is delighted. The child, Heathcliff, is https://www.fanclub-fulton-smith.de abused by his foster brother, Hindley, but grows to be loved by Cathy. A host of problems ensue, as Nelly Dean spins the heartbreaking story. At first, Nelly seems sympathetic, a loving and loyal servant. Or, is she a manipulating catalyst? As ghosts cry outside the windows, one can’t help but wonder why Mr. Earnshaw chose that particular child on that particular trip. Was Heathcliff really a bastard son of the kindly Mr. Earnshaw? In that case, Nelly’s manipulation may be evidence of her knowledge or suspicion of that secret.
Over 150 years later, Wuthering Heights presents a fascinating study in socio economic class, the possibility of incest, a disturbing look at abuse, alcoholism, and psychological drama.
Emily canada goose clearance Bronte haunts us canada goose outlet black friday over 150 years after her death. Picture
Emily, striding across her beloved moors with her faithful mastiff,
Keeper, wind tearing at her cloak. Or scrubbing the floors of
the Parsonage at Haworth in order to spare the aging servant.
And Emily, canada goose factory outlet thin as a rail, pale as a ghost, yet in the words of her
sister Charlotte, stronger than a man.
Or the shy, reclusive
Emily, marching into town to drag her brother Branwell out of the bars
when he became a violent annoyance. And our canada Canada Goose Online goose outlet store uk beloved Emily, canadian goose jacket secretly
writing and publishing Wuthering Heights under the pen name, Ellis Bell.
She was a recluse and a mystic, a lover of nature with no real friends and a reputation as being rude and socially awkward. Some sources claim that Emily dressed oddly, in purple dresses on which she embroidered lightning bolts.
Emily Bronte’s BackgroundBorn July 30, 1818, the fifth of 6 siblings, Emily’s canada goose outlet online life was canada goose outlet online uk a chronicle of sadness and loss. Her mother died in 1821, leaving the children in the care of their odd canada goose outlet and aloof father, Bronte.
Bronte, born Brunty (sometimes seen as Prunty) to a poor family in Ireland, was the brightest and most ambitious of 10 siblings. At 16, he left home to teach school and study until admitted to Cambridge. canada goose outlet nyc He changed his last name to Bronte, believing that the Frenchified name would give him social advantages.
After being ordained an Anglican minister, married Maria Branwell, a Methodist from Penzance and was appointed curate at Haworth in Yorkshire, England.
The eccentric Bronte kept to himself, leaving the children to tend to themselves and run wild. He took his dinner alone, yet set stringent rules for the children. Some sources claim that the children were not allowed to eat meat, had to dress in simple attire, and keep quiet. Rugs and curtains were uk canada goose outlet banned from the house due to ’s fear of fire.
At breakfast, regaled his motherless canada goose outlet reviews children with wild tales of bloody Irish massacres. Occasional bouts of rage sent him to the back door where he stood, firing his pistols canada goose out over the lonely
The inhospitable setting on top of a lovely hillside with a graveyard next door was brightened by the arrival of the deceased Mrs. Bronte’s sister, Elizabeth Branwell. Aunt Branwell taught the children lessons; cheap canada goose and sewing, cooking and housekeeping to the five girls.
In spring of 1824, the children became sick with measles and whooping canada goose coats on sale cough. thought that a ’change of air’ might aid their recovery. Perhaps, he longed for peace and quiet or hope to instill discipline when he sent canada goose outlet store them to Lowood, a boarding school for the children of clerics at Cowen’s Bridge. In July, he sent the two eldest girls, Marie and Elizabeth, then Charlotte and Emily in September.
Six year old Emily was recalled by a teacher as a pet, the darling of the school. But,the Lowood School would be immortalized by Charlotte in Jane Eyre; a dismal place without the slightest touch of human warmth. Discipline was severe with an emphasis on humility. The damp environment, poor diet, and abuse took a severe toll on the little girls.
Marie, with unhealed sores, due to medical intervention of the day, sickened. Barely able to sit up in bed, she was dragged downstairs and forced to work. Finally, the poor child was sent home to Haworth to die. She was soon followed in death by sister, Elizabeth. Shortly after, the ailing Charlotte and Emily Canada Goose online were removed. No one ever referred to Emily as a pet or darling again.
’My sister Emily Loved the Moors’It must have been a grim life for young Emily, losing her canada goose outlet mother and.