5/10/2023 0 Comments Books written by emily bronte![]() ![]() Alongside such mythologization, the sisters’ arduous path to publication was a remarkable collective effort. Yet too often they are still seen as unworldly spinsters in a desolate Yorkshire landscape, warmed by their surprisingly fiery imaginations. Lucasta Miller argues in The Brontë Myth (2001) that the Brontës are constantly reinvented to suit each generation. ![]() ![]() A trio has a powerful allure, summoning all the number’s witchy connotations. ![]() “We are three sisters,” Charlotte famously said when their anonymity could no longer be hidden from her publisher. More than merely siblings, the Brontës are a literary sisterhood. Joined by their older sister, in this attitude they wrote three iconic novels: Charlotte’s Jane Eyre (1847), Emily’s Wuthering Heights (1847), and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). A version of it appears in almost every onscreen biographical depiction of the Brontës. With quick ink strokes, Emily created a scene that has become an essential part of Brontë iconography: women writing together at a table. In her 1837 diary paper, Emily Brontë drew a sketch of herself from the back, sitting across from her sister Anne in voluminous sleeves, their private papers strewn about them. ![]()
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