The novel gave new truthfulness to victorian fiction We're the home of the famous brontë sisters She later wrote shirley (1849) and villette (1853)
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Between them, charlotte, emily, and anne brontë wrote seven books, including 'jane eyre', 'wuthering heights', and 'the tenant of wildfell hall' respectively
None of the sisters lived to see age 40, but they left behind profound literary legacies Brontë was born on april 21, 1816, in thornton, yorkshire, england Said to be the most dominant and ambitious of the brontës, charlotte was raised in a strict anglican home by her clergyman. Although ostensibly the brontë children lived a lonely childhood, they found plenty to occupy themselves
They played complex imaginary games and wrote them down in the form of poems, letters, and handmade books two inches tall. Emily brontë (born july 30, 1818, thornton, yorkshire, england—died december 19, 1848, haworth, yorkshire) was an english novelist and poet who produced but one novel, wuthering heights (1847), a highly imaginative work of passion and hate set on the yorkshire moors. The bronte family site explores the life, literature and art of victorian women writers, charlotte bronte and her sisters, emily bronte and anne bronte.
