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a) EMILY BRONT�
Biography
Emily Bronte is perhaps the greatest writer of the three Bront� sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Emily Bront� published
only one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a story of doomed love and revenge. But we can certainly say tha is one of the
masterpieces of English literature.
Emily Bronte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, on July 30, 1818. After their mother died in 1821, Emily and her brother and
sisters spent most of their time reading. They created imaginary worlds to escape their unhappy childhood. Between the years
1824 and 1825 Emily studied in Cowan Bridge school with Charlotte, and then was educated at home.
In 1835 Emily studied in Roe Head school, but she returned home in a few months. After learning foreign languages and school
management (Emily and Charlotte wanted to keep a school for girls) in Brussels, she returned to Haworth, where she stayed for
the rest of her brief life.
Emily Bronte died of tuberculosis on December 19 1848.
Her novel
Wuthering Heights (1847): http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/emily/b869w
b) ANNE BRONT�
Biography
Anne Bronte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire. She was mainly educated at home. Emily and Anne created their own Gondal.
In 1839 Anne worked for a short period as a governess to the Inghams at Blake Hall and later in same position to the
Robinsons at Thorpe Green Hall from 1841 to 1845.
In 1846 Anne Bronte published with her sisters a collection of poems, Poems By Currer, Ellis And Acton Bell. Her first novel,
Agnes Grey, a story about the life of a governess, appeared in 1847. Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was
published in 1848 in three volumes.
Anne Bronte died also because of tuberculosis like her sister Emily in 1849 at Scarborough.
Her novels
Agnes Grey 1847: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/anne/b869a
The Tenant og Wildfell Hall 1848: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/anne/b869t
c) CHARLOTTE BRONT�
Biography
In the past 40 years Charlotte Bront�'s reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she
was speaking up for oppressed women of every age.
Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire studied in the Clergy Daughter's School. In 1831 she went to school at Roe Head,
where she later worked as a teacher. But she left this post because she suffered from melancholia.
In 1846 she had finished a novel;The professor, but it never found a publisher during her lifetime. Charlotte began Jane
Eyre, which became an immediate success.
In 1848 she wrote Shirley and in 1853 Vilette.
In 1854 Charlotte Bronte married Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on March 31, 1855 in Haworth, Yorkshire.
Her novels
Jane Eyre 1847: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/charlotte/b869j
Shirley 1849
Villette 1853: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/charlotte/b869v
The Professor 1857: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/bronte/charlotte/b869pr
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