In the early 19th century, three sisters were born in a small house in northern England: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Each one would grow up to become a pivotal figure in English literature, with ...

This may be the origin of the recurring prison theme in her poetry; and Charlotte may have recalled the originating episode in Jane Eyre. Again, it may be that Emily suffered from jealousy of ...

“Wuthering Heights” was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and ...

All three had lived together at Haworth Parsonage in Yorkshire with their sister Charlotte ... handed copies of his sisters’ published works and then immediately dies. Emily sings that she ...

The Bronte sisters have been included in LGBT Pride events because they wrote under male pen names. Feminists have reacted angrily to Emily, Charlotte and Anne’s inclusion in Pride Month ...

The wide and deserved attention paid to Charlotte has shadowed the others to a degree; yet I have always admired Emily, the more ... brother and weakness for the sisters three.

In 1845 at Haworth on the Yorkshire moors, sisters Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Bronte and their father, a retired parson with failing eyesight, are continually troubled by their drunken ...

A painting of the Brontë sisters (left to right: Anne, Emily and Charlotte) by their brother, Branwell, who originally appeared in the middle of the group Public domain via Wikimedia Commons ...

The novelist, whose latest novel imagines Brontë’s life, says the book was written as she listened almost exclusively to the ...

Abiography of Emily Bronte ... exposed to public scrutiny, but Charlotte persuasively suggested the use of androgynous pseudonyms. So secretive were the sisters about their writing that neither ...

It’s another liberty; the real-life Charlotte, though a frequent critic and arbiter of her sisters’ published work, was hardly blind to the beauty of Emily’s masterpiece. The same can be ...