Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights have consistently spent decades in the top five best-selling and most popular novels of all time, so doesn’t that make them the obvious candidates for joint first? But I’d like to make the case for... Wuthering Heights, published 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell (Emily Brontë) Haworth [ edit ] The Brontës are the world's most famous literary family and Haworth Parsonage, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, was their home from 1820 to 1861.

Ellen, I wish I could live with you always. I begin to cling to you more fondly than ever I did. If we had but a cottage and a competency of our own, I do think we might live and love on till Death without being dependent on any third person for happiness... Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, by their brother Branwell ( c. 1834). He painted himself among his sisters, but later removed his image so as not to clutter the picture. My favourite mention of the Brontes occurs in Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. A very funny mention is made of Mybug, a pretentious aspiring writer, who is writing a book about how the Branwell Bronte android all of the novels claimed to be by his sisters and that his alcoholism was Erskine, Ann (2018). " "Fevered with Delusive Bliss": Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and the Ambiguous Pleasures of the Turk". Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 22 (1): 65–81. ISSN 1327-8746.

Anne hoped that the sea air would improve her health, as recommended by the doctor, and Charlotte agreed to go. [133] The four youngest Brontë children, all under ten years of age, had suffered the loss of the three eldest women in their immediate family. [7] In 1848 Brontë began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley. It was only partially completed when the Brontë family suffered the deaths of three of its members within eight months. In September 1848 Branwell died of chronic bronchitis and marasmus, exacerbated by heavy drinking, although Brontë believed that his death was due to tuberculosis. Branwell may have had a laudanum addiction. Emily became seriously ill shortly after his funeral and died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848. Anne died of the same disease in May 1849. Brontë was unable to write at this time.

Main article: Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë, probably by George Richmond (1850) Denunciation of boarding schools ( Jane Eyre) [ edit ] Fraser, Rebecca (2008). Charlotte Bronte: A Writer's Life. New York: Pegasus Books. ISBN 9781933648880. Ranking Jane Austen’s novels may cause controversy – but it’s a storm in a tea-cup compared to the elemental forces unleashed when asked to choose between the Brontë novels. The three weird sisters of Haworth arouse passions like no other writers: Austen has fans but the Brontës have devotees and, believe me, there’s a very big difference – criticising Pride and Prejudice doesn’tprovoke a baying lynch-mob in quite the same way as hinting that all is not perfection in Wuthering Heights.Robert K. Wallace (2008). Emily Brontë and Beethoven: Romantic Equilibrium in Fiction and Music. University of Georgia Press. p.223. The Brontë Parsonage Museum is managed and maintained by the Brontë Society, [147] which organises exhibitions and takes care of the cultural heritage represented by objects and documents that belonged to the family. The society has branches in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, the Scandinavian countries, South Africa and the USA. Alexander, Christine Anne; McMaster, Juliet (2005). The child writer from Austen to Woolf. Cambridge University Press. p.23. ISBN 9780521812931. Brontë's friendship with Elizabeth Gaskell, while not particularly close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote the first biography of Brontë after her death in 1855. Harms, Talaura (15 March 2021). "Playbill's Weekly Streaming Guide: What to Watch March 15–19". Playbill. Archived from the original on 15 March 2021 . Retrieved 6 June 2021.

Tuberculosis, which afflicted Maria and Elizabeth in 1825, also caused the eventual deaths of three of the surviving Brontës: Branwell in September 1848, Emily in December 1848, and, finally, Anne in May 1849.Wuthering Heights is presented as John Lennon's favourite book in The Sky is Everywhere, a young adult fiction novel by author Jandy Nelson. Fraser, Rebecca (1988). The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and her family. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-517-56438-6. Emily Jane Brontë ( / ˈ b r ɒ n t i/, commonly /- t eɪ/; [2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) [3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Willie Ellin, started after Shirley and Villette, and on which Charlotte worked relatively little in May and July 1853, is a story in three poorly linked parts in which the plot at this stage remains rather vague. When Emily was only three, and all six children under the age of eight, she and her siblings lost their mother, Maria, to cancer on 15 September 1821. [5] The younger children were to be cared for by Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt and Maria's sister.