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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.
Jane Eyre (/ ɛər / AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë.It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London.
In the comic series Die (2018) by writer Kieron Gillen and artist Stephanie Hans, three of the locations on the icosahedron shaped world are Gondal, Angria and Glass Town based on the Brontë juvenilia. [160] [161] In issue #9, Charlotte is a narrative character and reveals the connection between the world of Die, her siblings and their ...
Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine and the titular protagonist in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.The story follows Jane's infancy and childhood as an orphan, her employment first as a teacher and then as a governess, and her romantic involvement with her employer, the mysterious and moody Edward Rochester.
The genesis of Agnes Grey was attributed by Edward Chitham to the reflections on life found in Anne's diary of 31 July 1845. [4]It is likely that Anne was the first of the Brontë sisters to write a work of prose for publication, [5] although Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre were all published within the same year: 1847. [6]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë.It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854.
Charlotte Nicholls (née Brontë; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /), [1] was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
Thornfield Hall is a location in the 1847 novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It is the home of the male romantic lead, Edward Fairfax Rochester , where much of the action takes place. Brontë uses the depiction of Thornfield in a manner consistent with the gothic tone of the novel as a whole.