Emily Brontë (Annotated)

Emily Brontë (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A Victorian Literary Biography of the Wuthering Heights Author, Haworth Parsonage Life, and the Yorkshire MoorsBy A. Mary F. Robinson
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A. Mary F. Robinson's Emily Brontë is an early, perceptive literary biography that seeks to recover the elusive author of Wuthering Heights from legend, family reticence, and Victorian misunderstanding. Combining biographical narrative with critical interpretation, Robinson reads Brontë's fiction and poems as expressions of a stern imaginative solitude shaped by Haworth, the moors, religious intensity, and the Brontë household's inward genius. Its style is elegant, sympathetic, and distinctly nineteenth-century, placing Emily within the emerging canon of women writers while defending the originality and moral seriousness of her art. Robinson—poet, critic, novelist, and later Madame Duclaux—was herself a woman of letters navigating the intellectual world of late Victorian Europe. Her sensitivity to women's authorship, literary ambition, and the constraints imposed upon unconventional female genius informs the biography throughout. Writing only decades after Emily's death, she works from limited evidence, yet her critical intuition often compensates for archival scarcity. This book is recommended to readers interested in Brontë studies, Victorian biography, and the history of women's literary reputation. Though later scholarship has refined many details, Robinson's Emily Brontë remains valuable for its intelligence, atmosphere, and foundational role in shaping Emily's posthumous image. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance. - Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.

Audiobook details

GenreBiography and Memoir
Length6 hrs 28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Emily Brontë (Annotated)
22THE PROSPECTUSES.
2INTRODUCTION.
23CHAPTER XI.
3CHAPTER I.
24BRANWELL’S FALL.
4PARENTAGE.
25CHAPTER XII.
5CHAPTER II.
26WRITING POETRY.
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6BABYHOOD.
27CHAPTER XIII.
7CHAPTER III.
28TROUBLES.
8COWAN’S BRIDGE.
29CHAPTER XIV.
9CHAPTER IV.
30‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS:’ ITS ORIGIN.
10CHILDHOOD.
31CHAPTER XV.
11CHAPTER V.
32‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS:’ THE STORY.
12GOING TO SCHOOL.
33CHAPTER XVI.
13CHAPTER VI.
34‘SHIRLEY.’
14GIRLHOOD AT HAWORTH.
35CHAPTER XVII.
15CHAPTER VII.
36BRANWELL’S END.
16IN THE RUE D’ISABELLE.
37CHAPTER XVIII.
17CHAPTER VIII.
38EMILY’S DEATH.
18A RETROSPECT.
39FINIS!
19CHAPTER IX.
40THE END.
20THE RECALL.
41Memorable Quotes
21CHAPTER X.

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