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Reading this next â The BrontĂ«s by Juliet Barker! Itâs supposed to be one of the best BrontĂ« biographies so of course Iâm super excited to start it. The BrontĂ«s are my greatest love!
July 30th 1818: Emily Brontë born
On this day in 1818, English author Emily BrontĂ« was born in Thornton, Yorkshire. The daughter of a clergyman, Emily BrontĂ« and her family moved to Haworth when Emily was three years old. The family suffered several tragedies early in Emilyâs life, with her mother and two elder sisters dying within four years of each other. Despite having limited formal education, Emily and her surviving sisters - Charlotte and Anne - demonstrated great interest and talent in writing; Emily and Anne wrote several stories set in a fictional world called Gondal. Emily spent some time as a teacher before traveling to Brussels with Charlotte, with the intent of learning foreign languages to open a school. However, these plans never came to fruition, and in 1846 the three sisters discovered each otherâs poetry and published them, under male aliases, in a collection entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (Emily being Ellis). This book sold few copies, and âEllis Bellâ found little more success with her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, which was published the same year as her sister Charlotteâs Jane Eyre. Now considered a classic, the wild novel which offended Victorian sensibilities focuses on the Earnshaw and Linton families and centres around the character of Heathcliff. Since Emily BrontĂ«âs death from tuberculosis in 1848, aged thirty, Wuthering Heights has become more widely appreciated, and the BrontĂ«s remain iconic literary figures.
Haunt me then be with me always take any form, drive me mad but donât leave me
Jane Eyre, Kate BeatonÂ
Books and Cupcakes June Book Photo Challenge Day 1: New Favorite âI am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.â â Charlotte BrontĂ«
âWild Rosesâ, by Charlotte BrontĂ«
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âI have for the first time found what I can truly loveâI have found you. You are my sympathyâmy better selfâmy good angelâI am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about youâand, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.â â Charlotte BrontĂ«
And the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows.
Charlotte Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
Charlotte Brontë
I wish I was a girl again, half savage & hardy, & free⊠& laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have, gathers impulsively round him. I know I must conceal my sentiments; I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him. I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered;â and yet, while I breathe and think I must love him.
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre keeps you up late into the night, feverishly turning the pages so you can reach that romantic climax once again (how many times has it been? Youâre not telling). Or, you have some tragic lines from Wuthering Heights tattooed on your body, say âHeâs more myself than I am.â Then again, could you be that rare bird who eschews the dramatic love story and instead sits in a cafĂ© reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, underlining the passages about the abuse of women men got away with because of backward Victorian laws?
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Wuthering Heights (2011) directed by Andrea Arnold
Youâve killed me⊠Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you forget me?
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Who Needs Game of Thrones? Enter Glass Town, Gondal, and Angria:
Authorsâ juvenilia often allows readers to see the early inclinations and nascent style of a person who would grow up to become a famous literary figure. For the BrontĂ« siblings, the juvenilia is a fascinating fantasy world in its own right.
As children, eldest of the four creative BrontĂ«s, Charlotte â born on this day, 21 April 1816 â and next youngest, brother Branwell, worked from around 1824/5 using toy soldiers Branwell had been given by their father as characters for their fantasy realm. Around these figures, Charlotte, Branwell, and the youngest two children, Emily and Anne, created first the city of Glass Town; after the first few years (around 1829), Charlotte and Branwell expanded to write about the wider kingdom of Angria while Emily and Anne worked on the separate kingdom of Gondal.Â
Many of the documents making up the Glass Town/Gondal/Angria corpus â written well into all four authorâs young adulthoods (through 1839, if not later â Emily continued throughout her life) â were written and bound in miniature [as seen above in the items above, from the British Library]. Not only narrative prose, the juvenilia comprises poems from the points of view of various characters like âWel[l]ingtonâ and Napoleon, Parry and Ross (after the explorers) and the completely fictional Augusta Geraldin Almeda (âA.G.Aâ) and the Duke of Zamorna. Other entries include descriptions of events and adventures, and individual magazines and drawings of, about, and âbyâ Glass Town/Gondal/Angria residents and sites. Many of the best-known BrontĂ« poems were originally composed as part of the juvenilia works, only to have specific references (names and places) removed before publication in the poetical works: e.g., Emilyâs five excerpts from her 50 Gondal poems.
In 2010, scholar Christine Alexander edited the selected Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal for OUP â if you want to read the whole strange, wonderful stories alongside Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Tenant!
[Images of (1) âVesperâ and âMatinâ poems;  (2) âThe Search After Hap[p]inessâ; (3) Blackwoodâs Young Menâs Magazine; (4) Tales; (5) âThe History of the Young Menâ; and (6) Earliest known writings of Charlotte BrontĂ« (not part of the speculative fiction of these worlds) â via British Library, © BrontĂ« Parsonage Museum]
Happy 199th Birthday Charlotte BrontĂ« April 21, 1816 â March 31, 1855
âI would always rather be happy than dignifiedâ
Photo:Â The Guardian