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Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

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Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 07 hours and 40 minutes

Language: English

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, where her father was an Anglican curate. When Brontë was three years old her mother died of cancer. At the age of six she joined her three sisters briefly at the Clergy Daughters' School, where privations and abuse contributed to the deaths of two of them. Her elder sister, Charlotte, immortalized this terrible place in "Jane Eyre." In 1846 Emily Brontë, under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, published a selection of her poetry. In 1847 appeared her dark, gothic novel, "Wuthering Heights," with its Byronic anti-hero, Heathcliff. Brontë was shy, even reclusive, and never married. In the fall of 1848 she fell ill with inflammation of the lungs, probably due to rapidly-progressive tuberculosis, and died in December of that year, aged twenty-nine. This is a short biography of Brontë written by the British poet, novelist, and critic, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson (1857-1944). (Pamela Nagami)

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Introduction (Pamela Nagami)
Parentage (Pamela Nagami)
Babyhood (Pamela Nagami)
Cowan's Bridge (Pamela Nagami)
Childhood (Pamela Nagami)
Going to School (Pamela Nagami)
Girlhood at Haworth (Pamela Nagami)
In the Rue D'Isabelle (Pamela Nagami)
A Retrospect (Pamela Nagami)
The Recall (Pamela Nagami)
The Prospectuses (Pamela Nagami)
Branwell's Fall (Pamela Nagami)
Writing Poetry (Pamela Nagami)
Troubles (Pamela Nagami)
'Wuthering Heights:' Its Origin (Pamela Nagami)
'Wuthering Heights:' The Story, Part 1 (Pamela Nagami)
'Wuthering Heights:' The Story, Part 2 (Pamela Nagami)
'Shirley' (Pamela Nagami)
Branwell's End (Pamela Nagami)
Emily's Death and Finis (Pamela Nagami)
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