Emily Brontë
By Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)
Classic work by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances).
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PARENTAGE. Emily Bronte was born of parents without any peculiar talent for literature. It is true that her mother's letters are precisely and prettily written. It is true that he...
BABYHOOD. After his wife's death the Rev. Mr. Bronte's life grew yet more secluded from ordinary human interests. He was not intimate with his parishioners; scarcely more intimate...
COWAN'S BRIDGE. "It was in the year 1823 that the school for clergymen's daughters was first projected. The place was only then contemplated as desirable in itself, and as a place...
CHILDHOOD. The home to which Charlotte and Emily returned was not a very much more healthy spot than that they left; but it was home. It was windy and cold, and badly drained. Mr....
GOING TO SCHOOL. Emily was now sixteen years old, and though the people in the village called her "t' cleverest o' t' Bronte childer," she had little to show of her cleverness. He...
GIRLHOOD AT HAWORTH. The next two years passed very solitarily for Emily at Haworth; the Brontes were too poor for all to stay at home, and since it was definitely settled that Em...
IN THE RUE D'ISABELLE. The Rue d'Isabelle had a character of its own. It lies below your feet as you stand in the Rue Royale, near the statue of General Beliard. Four flights of s...
A RETROSPECT. "Poor, brilliant, gay, moody, moping, wildly excitable, miserable Bronte! No history records your many struggles after the good--your wit, brilliance, attractiveness...
THE RECALL. Suddenly recalled from what had seemed the line of duty, with all their future prospects broken, the three sisters found themselves again at Haworth together. There co...
THE PROSPECTUSES. Gradually Charlotte's first depression wore away. Long discussions with Emily, as they took their walks over the moors, long silent brooding of ways and means, a...
BRANWELL'S FALL. As the spring grew upon the moors, dappling them with fresh verdant shoots, clearing the sky overhead, loosening the winds to rush across them; as the beautiful s...
WRITING POETRY. While Emily Bronte's hands were full of trivial labour, while her heart was buried with its charge of shame and sorrow, think not that her mind was more at rest. S...
TROUBLES. While Emily Bronte was striving to create a world of fancy and romance natural to her passionate spirit, the real, everyday existence in which she had to work and endure...
'WUTHERING HEIGHTS:' ITS ORIGIN. A grey old Parsonage standing among graves, remote from the world on its wind-beaten hill-top, all round the neighbouring summits wild with moors;...
'WUTHERING HEIGHTS:' THE STORY. On the summit of Haworth Hill, beyond the street, stands a grey stone house, which is shown as the original of 'Wuthering Heights.' A few scant and...
'SHIRLEY.' While 'Wuthering Heights' was still in the reviewer's hands, Emily Bronte's more fortunate sister was busy on another novel. This book has never attained the steady suc...
BRANWELL'S END. The autumn of the year 1848 was tempestuous and wild, with sudden and frequent changes of temperature, and cold penetrating wind. Those chilling blasts whirling ro...
EMILY'S DEATH. Already by the 29th of October of this melancholy year of 1848 Emily's cough and cold had made such progress as to alarm her careful elder sister. Before Branwell's...